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jomaweb · 02-04-2010, 03:51 PM

Hi all

I got a bunch of eBooks with this filename structure:

Surname, Firstname - book Title

When adding to Calibre library, using the default Regular Expression

(?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+)

author appears with a strange symbol (pipe?) between name and surname because of the comma.

I'm not a computer geek, so if anyone can tell me how to fix the regular expression to add this kind of files I'll appreciate it.

A solution for bulk repairing the previously hundred books addedd is possible too? Fixing one by one is a lot of time consuming

Thanks in advance

02-04-2010, 03:51 PM	#1
jomaweb Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle DX	Regular Expression for filenames with commas Hi all I got a bunch of eBooks with this filename structure: Surname, Firstname - book Title When adding to Calibre library, using the default Regular Expression (?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+) author appears with a strange symbol (pipe?) between name and surname because of the comma. I'm not a computer geek, so if anyone can tell me how to fix the regular expression to add this kind of files I'll appreciate it. A solution for bulk repairing the previously hundred books addedd is possible too? Fixing one by one is a lot of time consuming Thanks in advance Last edited by jomaweb; 02-04-2010 at 04:06 PM.