Adding Books

cityzen · 04-09-2011, 10:48 PM

Hi All
I am adding some books and the titles have all the details and have the same format. I have been playing with the regex stuff, but can seem to get more than a couple of the details at a time.

Titles look like this:
002 - Foundation Series - [The First Trilogy] - Second Foundation (by Isaac Asimov).epub

what is the regex to break this all apart to get the following results:
Title: Second Foundation
Authors: Isaac Asimov
Series: Foundation Series - The First Trilogy
Series Index: 002

Thanks in Advance
CZ

Manichean · 04-10-2011, 02:17 AM

What expressions did you try and what results did you get using them?

Starson17 · 04-11-2011, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cityzen

Hi All
I am adding some books and the titles have all the details and have the same format. I have been playing with the regex stuff, but can seem to get more than a couple of the details at a time.

Titles look like this:
002 - Foundation Series - [The First Trilogy] - Second Foundation (by Isaac Asimov).epub

what is the regex to break this all apart to get the following results:
Title: Second Foundation
Authors: Isaac Asimov
Series: Foundation Series - The First Trilogy
Series Index: 002

Thanks in Advance
CZ

Without removing square brackets:

Code:

(?P<series_index>[0-9]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?\(by (?P<author>[^_].+)\) ?

cityzen · 04-15-2011, 12:51 AM

Thanks, had the update email set to weekly, so I didn't get an update till today.
@Manichean I didn't keep what I was doing, as it wasn't working. Suspect it was an absence of a \s* or two, as they don't look familiar.
@ Starson17 - thats pretty much it, i can tweak it from there.

04-09-2011, 10:48 PM	#1
cityzen Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle	Adding Books Hi All I am adding some books and the titles have all the details and have the same format. I have been playing with the regex stuff, but can seem to get more than a couple of the details at a time. Titles look like this: 002 - Foundation Series - [The First Trilogy] - Second Foundation (by Isaac Asimov).epub what is the regex to break this all apart to get the following results: Title: Second Foundation Authors: Isaac Asimov Series: Foundation Series - The First Trilogy Series Index: 002 Thanks in Advance CZ

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04-10-2011, 02:17 AM	#2
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	What expressions did you try and what results did you get using them?

04-15-2011, 12:51 AM	#4
cityzen Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle	Thanks, had the update email set to weekly, so I didn't get an update till today. @Manichean I didn't keep what I was doing, as it wasn't working. Suspect it was an absence of a \s* or two, as they don't look familiar. @ Starson17 - thats pretty much it, i can tweak it from there.

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