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Old 12-03-2010, 10:09 AM   #1
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I have some ebooks in the format:

Scientific American - 1993.12 - Taming Africanized Killer Bees
Scientific American Online - 2006 #28 - Evolution

What is the correct regular expression to read all these?
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Old 12-03-2010, 10:18 AM   #3
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Thank you,

I sincerely can not follow these, this is well above my understanding
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Old 12-03-2010, 11:42 AM   #4
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"~^Scientific American"
Include the quotes, will get you everything that starts with the words Scientific American
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Old 12-03-2010, 11:48 AM   #5
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"~^Scientific American"
Include the quotes, will get you everything that starts with the words Scientific American
I think he's looking for a regex to import them with at least title. There is no "correct" or "best" answer. He'd need to specify what metadata (author, pubdate, publisher, series name, series_index) he's trying to extract from the title to answer his question.
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Old 12-03-2010, 11:56 AM   #6
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Thanks,

How would I use it to extract the info?

Scientific American - 1993.12 - Taming Africanized Killer Bees
Name=Scientific American
pubdate=1993.12
Title=Taming Africanized Killer Bees

For the other style:

Scientific American Online - 2006 #28 - Evolution

Name=Scientific American Online
not sure how I would store the 2006 #28 , maybe skip
Title=Taming Africanized Killer Bees



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"~^Scientific American"
Include the quotes, will get you everything that starts with the words Scientific American
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Old 12-11-2010, 05:31 AM   #7
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You could try...

^Scientific American.*?$

But not entirely sure from the question what you want to achieve. Could you give the original text and then the text you wamt to extract from it.
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How would I use it to extract the info?
You can't.

You can only extract Title, Authors, Series, Series index and ISBN using a regular expression as you add the book. Take a look at preferences for adding books.

But if you are in luck, the files you have may have all the correct metadata embeded in them. Then you can have Calibre read it directly from inside the file. Also something you specify in preferences for adding books.
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Old 12-15-2010, 06:21 AM   #9
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Do you know the regular expression that would at least give me the title?
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Old 12-15-2010, 06:30 AM   #10
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Using the Scientific American as series a simple one would be
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(?P<series>.*) - .* - (?P<title>.*)
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Old 12-15-2010, 06:52 AM   #11
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Thank you for the reply.

I tried it with "Scientific American - 1993.12 - Taming Africanized Killer Bees" as test. It recognises "Scientific American - 1993" as title and for the series it gets no match.

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Using the Scientific American as series a simple one would be
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(?P<series>.*) - .* - (?P<title>.*)
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(?P<series>.*?) - .*? - (?P<title>.*?)
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Thank you for the reply.

I tried it with "Scientific American - 1993.12 - Taming Africanized Killer Bees" as test. It recognises "Scientific American - 1993" as title and for the series it gets no match.
The regexp does work. See the attached screenshot of the test.

You probably didn't perform the secret handshake. For the tests to work, you must have a file extension on your file name.
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Old 12-15-2010, 07:17 AM   #14
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Yes it works!
I did not know about the handshake!

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Try
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(?P<series>.*?) - .*? - (?P<title>.*?)
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