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Old 12-30-2010, 11:37 AM   #1
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Lightbulb Search & Replace Suggestion

I had a suggestion for a future update regarding the search and replace function.

Here is the scenario I am considering. Often when I import books the isbn shows up as the title.

It would be nice if in the search & replace page you could have a way to replace one field with another.

Sounds simple enough.

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Old 12-30-2010, 12:28 PM   #2
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You already can do this, but only in regular expression mode. See the attached screen shot.
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Old 12-31-2010, 07:31 AM   #3
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Ah! Great. I didn't notice that option.

Thanks. Perhaps you can tell me if there is an easy way to edit the string being matched. I know there are a large number of expressions - but is there one that can concatenate a string - say removing the last four characters - or that can take only x number of characters from the left (or right)?

Appreciate your help.
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Following up

I know that I can, for example, do this from the left.

If I put in the expression [10] I get the ten characters from the left.

Is there a way to do the opposite - get the ten characters from the right?
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I take that back on the [10] - misunderstood the output.

But I have been successful in finding some ways to accomplish my goal. Still it would be good to know if I could concatenate a string or if I could take only x number of characters from left or right.
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S/R has both the template language and full regular expressions available, so there is very little you cannot do. See http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/template_lang.html and http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/regexp.html.

From your example you appear to be using the template language. To get the first 10 characters of a field, use {field:shorten(10,,0)}. To get the last 10, use {field:shorten(0,,10)}. The shorten function (and several others) is documented in the manual referred to above.

Note that you can also grab the first up-to-ten characters using a regexp. The search expression would be
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(.{1,10}).*
The replace expression would be
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\1
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Thanks so much. Really helps.
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