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darkbeanies · 08-21-2011, 06:50 AM

Hello, I already asked this in my other thread, I know it's naughty but I thought maybe no one would read it in the other thread and I'd really, really like to be able to do this.

So, my authors are currently delimited by semicolons, like "Bill Brewer; Jan Stewer; Peter Guerney". I can search and replace semicolon with ampersand in calibre, and calibre then recognises these as separate authors. However, I cannot get search and replace to put the semicolons back again, because it will not let me replace the ampersand (represented by ":::" in the search and replace function.

Does anyone know if there is a regular expression or something for the delimiters?

08-21-2011, 06:50 AM	#1
darkbeanies Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Search and Replace Tag/Author Delimiters Hello, I already asked this in my other thread, I know it's naughty but I thought maybe no one would read it in the other thread and I'd really, really like to be able to do this. So, my authors are currently delimited by semicolons, like "Bill Brewer; Jan Stewer; Peter Guerney". I can search and replace semicolon with ampersand in calibre, and calibre then recognises these as separate authors. However, I cannot get search and replace to put the semicolons back again, because it will not let me replace the ampersand (represented by ":::" in the search and replace function. Does anyone know if there is a regular expression or something for the delimiters?