File creation with variable

[JMichaelTX]

@martinopenmedi

what I'm struggling with is how to use a variable I created, which holds the next number the textfile should get and use it in the file creation.

This post should help:

Duplicate, rename and increment the name of a file

First, look at the topic Working with the Finder Selection which describes how you can work with the Finder’s selection. You can use the Get File Attribute action to break the path into parts (like the parent path, the base filename and the extension). You can test for the existence of a number in the base filename using the If Then Else action and the Variable “matches” regular expression condition. You can use the Search Variable action to break the base filename apart into before and after…