Batch file to make folders with part of folder name and then copy files

[Azure]

Hello!

I am trying to organize a lot of folders contained within the same folder, most of them follow this standard when it comes to the folder name:

"(code) XXX NAME (Source) XXX"
//XXX represents random text that may be present.
// The first parenthesis is not always present either.

So, for example, I have a folder named "(C323) Fox (Carnivore)" within my folder "Animals" and need for the batch to take the contents within the last parenthesis and make a folder with that name (if it doesnt exist already) and move the orignal folder "(C323) Fox (Carnivore)" to the new folder "Carnivore".

I have tried looking on stackoverflow and even asking myself, since all the similar things i find are for file names instead of folder names, I cant make it work.

I noticed what I was asking is very similar to topic=152980.0 posted by doshisahil95 on this very forum, just that its a folder name and the folder name would be that of the parenthesis.

Is this at all doable?

I include my failure at making my own code, just for some laughs:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%A in (*) do (
   echo directory found  %%A
   for /D "delims=" %%B in ("%%A") do set fname=%%~nB
   for /D "delims=" %%C in ("%%A") do set fextn=%%~xC
   for /D "tokens=1* delims=()" %%D in ("!fname!") do set folname=%%D
   echo folder name !folname!
   if not exist "!folname!" (
      echo Folder !folname! does not exist, creating
      md "!folname!"
   ) else (
      echo Folder !folname! exists
   )
   echo Moving file %%A to folder !folname!
   move "%%A" "!folname!"
   )
echo Finished
pause

I have some other attempts based on other posts i've found, if they help let me know!

[Squashman]

This is the example I tested with based on your description.

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C:\Nature>dir /ad /s /b
C:\Nature\(C323) Fox (Carnivore)
C:\Nature\C123) Wolf (Carnivore)Using this code.

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@echo off
FOR /D %%G IN (*) DO (
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=()" %%H IN ("%%~G") DO (
MD "%%~H" 2>nul
move "%%~G" "%%~H"
)
)Running the batch file.

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C:\Nature>FolderMove.bat
        1 dir(s) moved.
        1 dir(s) moved.

C:\Nature>dir /ad /s /b
C:\Nature\Carnivore
C:\Nature\Carnivore\(C323) Fox (Carnivore)
C:\Nature\Carnivore\C123) Wolf (Carnivore)

C:\Nature>