Generate URL series

Sometime, you many need to download many files with consecutive or serialized file names. For example:

  http://www.foo.com/bar08a.htm
  http://www.foo.com/bar09a.htm
  http://www.foo.com/bar10a.htm
  http://www.foo.com/bar11a.htm
  http://www.foo.com/bar12a.htm

NetAnts provided a method to greatly simplify the task to enter this kind of URLs.

Bring up the "Add batch jobs" dialog box by click on toolbar button or use the "File/Add Batch..." menu. There're two tabs, the first one is "Generate sequence". Take the above example, you will input in the first blank of the URL mask edit box: http://www.foo.com/bar, the second URL mask edit box: a.htm, the range from 8 to 12, and digit count 2.

Uppcase letter "A-Z" or lowcase letter "a-z" can aslo be used to generate URL series.

Note that the digit count is not the number of 0s to add, it is the total number of digits, with or without 0. Hence, if the digit count is less than required, 0s are prefixed, otherwise, no 0s are added.