01-10-2011, 04:11 PM | #1 |
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Need help with Importing Books
Need help Please! I posting this again because I really need help. I've looked through the FAQ, i'm not a programer, just one of the little people and I can not figure out how to get Calibre to pull metadata from the file name in the format I need. I've tried several things I have read in the posts but nothing has worked for this file name format...
I am trying to import a batch of ebooks that are formated as follows... Author (last name first Name) - Searies [##] - Title Example: Patterson James - Alex Cross [10] - London Bridges.epub What is the expression I have to use? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. |
01-10-2011, 06:49 PM | #2 |
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Hi Logan, This should do it
Code:
^(?P<author>((?!\s-\s).)+)\s-\s(?P<series>((?!\[).)+)\[(?P<series_index>((?!\])\d)+)\]\s-\s(?P<title>((?!\.).)+) |
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01-11-2011, 04:41 PM | #3 |
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Garcle, thank you and that worked perfectly. If i wasn't alergic to green playdo I would kiss you! But can you tell me something, 78 people viewed this post and you were the one and only to respond. Did I post in the wrong place? Or is this something that is very hard to figure out? If it is I could not find many posts on the topic and what I did find I can not make heads or tails of.
Thanks again for you very kind responce. Forever in your debt, Logan 6 |
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It's not rocket science but it isn't intuitive to most users. Again you got an accurate answer in under 3 hours, why are you questioning this? Quote:
For future reference here are some links that you might find useful. Calibre Manual, Calibre FAQ, growing list of tutorials, Calibre help page, Change Log outlining changes between each version. Good Luck in the future and don't hesitate to ask more questions as needed. We're all glad to help. |
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