feature-rquest: ignore prefix

[dacook8]

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344580&pid=3187421#pid3187421

Hi,
I spent quite some time looking for a solution to have a prefix in the movie-directory-name, but havn´t found a solution yet.
Would you please be so kind to assist?
Is it possible to ignore a index-prefix (specified by a character, e.g. "_") in scraping?
something like:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=187569
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=264251
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=370722

example 1 numeric index:
Star.Trek.Collection

01_Star.Trek.The.Motion.Picture.1979
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo
02_Star.Trek.The.Wrath.of.Khan.1982
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo
03_Star.Trek.The.Search.for.Spock.1984
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo

example 2 date index:
Dustin.Hoffman.Collection

1967_Die.Reifeprüfung
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo
1969_Asphalt.Cowboy
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo
1970_Little.Big.Man
    movie.mkv
    movie.nfo

[KarellenX]

It's not the scraper that can solve this.
Kodi trims the filename before passing it onto the scraper. So the scraper has already received the trimmed search string.

If you know regex, you can add your own cleanstrings ... https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#cleanstrings

Also, maybe consider this new feature... #205

[robink888]

If you know regex, you can add your own cleanstrings

Cleanstring unfortunately only removes suffixes. As the documentation puts it:

everything right of the match (at the end of the file name) is removed

I, too, have movie collections that I sort by date that I have to crawl manually because of this oversight.