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Originally Posted by chaley
... I tried both a) and b) and they worked except for books that have multiple authors. ...
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Hi chaley,
Thank you for confirming that you were able to get the template "swap_around_comma(val)" to work in the context of both approaches a) and b) as described above. (The issue with multiple authors can be resolved okay in different ways I guess.)
I was curious how you got swap_around_comma(val) to work, in terms of the specific use and syntax for each of the two approaches.
I had mentioned several examples for the syntax that I tried using but those did not seem to work.
The questions I was struggling with include:
i) does swap_around_comma(val) need to be enclosed in {};
ii) is "val" a general parameter to be replaced by something else;
iii) in bulk edit search and replace does it go in the "search for:" section;
iv) is the syntax different for the bulk edit approach compared to the template syntax when setting up a user-defined custom column with column type "Column build from other columns".
v) maybe seeing specific examples is the easiest way to see how it works?
I have been using Calibre for a relatively short period of time but it is really impressive open source software that particularly Kovid Goyal, and all of you, have helped to create.