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Old 11-13-2011, 09:23 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by ElMiko View Post
You're awesome. I'm not even going to guess at how many hours you've saved me (or how many of my precious few remaining threads of sanity)

At the risk of trying your patience, could either of you please break down for me what that expression meant? specifically, this part "\s+". I've tried several times to get a working understanding of regex and come up woefully short.
one or more 'whitespace' characters. space (all flavors),tab,CRLF

Read the REGEX tutorial by Manichean in the Calibre forum.
I had avoided REGEX pain for years. He made it clear and (mostly) simple.
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