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kamanza · 01-24-2012, 07:11 AM

I was annoyed by having to correct manually every time there was a hyphen in the author's name or in the title, so i continued tinkering.
I've figured it a bit more:

code

(?P<author>.*?)( -\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*))? -\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

It takes care of cases with or without hyphens in title, series & authors, with or without series.
The remaining problem is that if there is no author, series goes into the author slot.
But that is a rare occurrence, so i consider the problem mainly solved.

01-24-2012, 07:11 AM	#3
kamanza Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	I was annoyed by having to correct manually every time there was a hyphen in the author's name or in the title, so i continued tinkering. I've figured it a bit more: code (?P<author>.?)( -\s(?P<series>[^_0-9])(?P<series_index>[0-9]))? -\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ? It takes care of cases with or without hyphens in title, series & authors, with or without series. The remaining problem is that if there is no author, series goes into the author slot. But that is a rare occurrence, so i consider the problem mainly solved.