Adding Books, regular expression

[smarties86]

First of all, I am very happy I found Calibre; it made my ebook collection organization so much better~

I am trying to figure out how to edit the regular expression for adding metadata using the filename. I know there are a lot of post regarding this but none of them works for me (either I'm not pasting it right or I'm just stupid and need someone to walk me through the steps~)

I currently have this:

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

which works GREAT when I have series in between the author and title.
ie Name_Name-Series_##-Title_title_tile.ext
(works with or without "_")

What I would like is for it to recognize files without the series
ie Name_Name-Title_title_tile.ext
and at the same time recognize those with series if present...

any possibilities?

Thanks in advance!!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by smarties86

What I would like is for it to recognize files without the series
ie Name_Name-Title_title_tile.ext
and at the same time recognize those with series if present...

any possibilities?

Yes. Make the series optional. If you want someone to write the regex for you, post one sample of each type filename it needs to parse. Without sample filenames, it's very hard to match what you need.

[smarties86]

Originally Posted by Starson17

Yes. Make the series optional. If you want someone to write the regex for you, post one sample of each type filename it needs to parse. Without sample filenames, it's very hard to match what you need.

sample filename:

Suzanne Brockmann - Troubleshooters 13 - Into the Fire.rtf
Suzanne Brockmann - Into the Fire.rtf

It would be cool if Calibre can recognize the title ("into the fire") and author ("Suzanne brockmann), with option of detecting series ("Troubleshooters", series index "13") only if it's there

Thanks again!!

[kiwidude]

Read this thread, the regex matches exactly what you want.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by smarties86

It would be cool if Calibre can recognize the title ("into the fire") and author ("Suzanne brockmann), with option of detecting series ("Troubleshooters", series index "13") only if it's there

Kiwidude sent you to a regex that will do that. There are many around that will not only do those, but will also do variations, such as where the series number has a '#' symbol in front, etc. searches on "regex" here will find them.