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Sidetrack · 02-25-2012, 05:57 PM

I'm having some trouble, I have a number of tags all prefixed with "QC: " that I'd like to extract from the tags column and dump into a custom tags column.

I can get at the tags I want just fine with (^QC[:] [^,]*) but I can't seem to come up regex to exclude the preceding and following tags so I can dump only the QC tags into the custom column.

Any ideas? I'd really rather not apply them one at a time from the edit metadata interface.

02-25-2012, 05:57 PM	#1
Sidetrack Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Pacific Device: Kindle DX	Regex help needed, selecting single tags out of namy I'm having some trouble, I have a number of tags all prefixed with "QC: " that I'd like to extract from the tags column and dump into a custom tags column. I can get at the tags I want just fine with (^QC[:] [^,]*) but I can't seem to come up regex to exclude the preceding and following tags so I can dump only the QC tags into the custom column. Any ideas? I'd really rather not apply them one at a time from the edit metadata interface.