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genright · 06-12-2011, 08:32 AM

Can anyone please help with a regex for adding books that may optionally have a series? I have one that gets a trailing title correctly most of the tme, but series get lumped with the author name.

eg "bob smith - a long series 01 - my title.txt"

I tried variations on the below but that fails, and google doesnt seem to help.

(?P<author>.+)( - (?P<series> <series_index>))? - (?P<title>[^_]+)

Cheers for any suggestions

06-12-2011, 08:32 AM	#1
genright Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: laptop mostly, or any other handy screen	Adding books with series in the filename Can anyone please help with a regex for adding books that may optionally have a series? I have one that gets a trailing title correctly most of the tme, but series get lumped with the author name. eg "bob smith - a long series 01 - my title.txt" I tried variations on the below but that fails, and google doesnt seem to help. (?P<author>.+)( - (?P<series> <series_index>))? - (?P<title>[^_]+) Cheers for any suggestions Last edited by genright; 06-12-2011 at 09:07 AM.