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LMF · 03-20-2012, 04:15 AM

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to set up the regular expression in adding books so that it reads some metadata from my filenames but I'm really lost with it. I've read through the manual and tutorial on using regular expressions and have tried all sorts of combinations with no luck. I'm an absolute beginner with this stuff.

My filenames are listed either as:

052184214X.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Idea.of. the.State.Mar.2005
or
0521012732.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Bigger.B ang.Jun.2002

All I really need to be able to pull out of the filenames is the isbn's and the titles - the publisher (Cambridge University Press) and the date added to the end aren't needed and from what I can tell from the "test" they can't be added anyway.

So yeah, if anyone has any advice or can write up an expression for me to try it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

03-20-2012, 04:15 AM	#1
LMF Member Posts: 20 Karma: 3628 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: iPad, Kindle	Regular Expression - Adding metadata from filename Hi Guys, I'm trying to set up the regular expression in adding books so that it reads some metadata from my filenames but I'm really lost with it. I've read through the manual and tutorial on using regular expressions and have tried all sorts of combinations with no luck. I'm an absolute beginner with this stuff. My filenames are listed either as: 052184214X.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Idea.of. the.State.Mar.2005 or 0521012732.Cambridge.University.Press.The.Bigger.B ang.Jun.2002 All I really need to be able to pull out of the filenames is the isbn's and the titles - the publisher (Cambridge University Press) and the date added to the end aren't needed and from what I can tell from the "test" they can't be added anyway. So yeah, if anyone has any advice or can write up an expression for me to try it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!