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Serpentine · 10-28-2011, 04:38 PM

Surely something simple like :

Code:

(?mi)^(?P<isbn>[\d\-x]{9,17})

Would work better? It includes some leeway for -'s which are often used to space isbn's.

And for fun, here's an over-complex regex to pull out the potentially useful stuff from that formatting :

Code:

(?P<isbn>[\d\-xX]{9,17})\.(?:(?P<publisher>(?:[\w]+\s[\w]*)+)\.)?(?P<title>.+?)(?P<datefudge>(?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\w*\.\d{2,4})?(?:\.[^\.]+[\n\r$])

10-28-2011, 04:38 PM	#24
Serpentine Evangelist Posts: 416 Karma: 1045911 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cape Town, South Africa Device: Kindle 3	Surely something simple like : Code: (?mi)^(?P<isbn>[\d\-x]{9,17}) Would work better? It includes some leeway for -'s which are often used to space isbn's. And for fun, here's an over-complex regex to pull out the potentially useful stuff from that formatting : Code: (?P<isbn>[\d\-xX]{9,17})\.(?:(?P<publisher>(?:[\w]+\s[\w])+)\.)?(?P<title>.+?)(?P<datefudge>(?:Jan\|Feb\|Mar\|Apr\|May\|Jun\|Jul\|Aug\|Sep\|Oct\|Nov\|Dec)\w\.\d{2,4})?(?:\.[^\.]+[\n\r$])