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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Not quite an idiots guide, I'm afraid. Basically, you have to learn to use regular expressions. Here's a guide to regular expressions

http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

Ok complicated!?



I have had a go though but havent had chance to test.

what does anyone think of the chances that this would work for the following file name,types.

STAR TREK - DS9 - 01 - Emissary_512

STAR TREK - TNG - 01 - Ghost Ship_624

(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_-]*)\s*-\s*(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_]+) ?