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Old 12-14-2012, 11:36 AM   #1
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Template language query. Removing all text after a set of characters

The metadata request pulls down Reviews and "About the Author" and "Excerpt" text that I want to exclude.

It looks like that data is always preceded by three number signs ###

After some noodling at Rubular, it appears that this Reg Expression captures all the text after ### (actually it includes the ### which is good).

\###(.*)

In calibre, I tried

{comments:re(\###(.*),)}

However, this simply removes the ### and not the text after. Suggestions?

Last edited by da_jane; 12-14-2012 at 11:37 AM. Reason: Replacing the Calibre code.
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Old 12-14-2012, 01:37 PM   #2
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Are you making a composite custom column (column made from other columns) or are you using search/replace to remove the unwanted stuff?

Your template works fine for me when making a custom column for comments that don't contains newlines. However, it would be better written as
Code:
{comments:re(###.*,)}
If your comments contain newlines (my guess is that there is a newline after the ###) then you should use something like
Code:
{comments:'re($,  '(?s)###(.*)', '') '}
The (?s) in the beginning tells the regexp processor that the . character can match newlines.
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