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Old 09-23-2010, 06:56 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by kacir View Post
I will continue later. At this moment I go to sleep, but there are a few things that need to be explained, such as:
- referencing parenthesis using \1, \3 notation
- anchors
- interesting extensions (? ... )
- more quantifiers {m,n} (not that I consider them particular useful in Regular Expression typically used in Calibre.)
Do you really think this is useful to the average user? This is really more about getting people started than explaining every little detail regular expression syntax offers.

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We should also develop a few very typical examples, useful for ordinary user, such as processing filename that *might* contain series information (here we will use the pipe '|' to process several branches, with and without series info)
So, please, if you want to solve your typical problem, post it here, so we could develop some examples using real-life situations.
I very much agree. This is what is lacking most of all at this point, I should be able to get around to that in the next few days (there's a weekend coming up, after all).
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