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Originally Posted by Rob557
Would you know if it is possible to use Calibre's bulk edit search and replace to remove the series and/or series_index from the title, specifically where the series and/or series_index is already separately identified in the appropriate fields.
For example, in Calibre's bulk edit search and replace, when editing the title field would there be a regular expression that could be used in the "search for" field to match against the contents in the series and/or series_index fields so that such character string matches could thereby be removed from the title?
The Quality Check plug-in is very helpful (check metadata / check titles with series) by identifying an overall subset of files that appear to have the series included in the title, but determining the necessary edits (in a bulk edit of further subsets of those files) is a trickier exercise. I am mainly looking at the situation of merging two libraries that used different approaches and a bulk edit approach would be more practical than editing each occurrence manually.
Thank you in advance for any help on this. I wasn't able to find any threads that established whether such an approach was possible.
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REGEDIT has to match YOUR title string exactly
Ex: The Title [the series 3] - The Author
(.+)\s+\[.+\d+\]\s-\s(.+)
\1 - \2