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Originally Posted by Rob557
Thanks theducks. I may be missing something in how to use that regular expression approach:
In the bulk edit search and replace I did the following: search field: title
search for: (.+)\s+\[.+\d+\]\s-\s(.+)
replace with: \1 - \2
destination field: test#
your test field: Title [3] - Author but the "test result" field came out as "Title [3] - Author" ... i.e. it did not show any changes.
To expand on my earlier comments, the following illustrates the most common examples that I am coming across for the contents of the title field:
series # - title (i.e. no brackets around the number)
series - # - title
series - title but I'm not having much luck so far trying to modify that regular expression approach. |
See, your pattern was Not the most common i have seen.
One size REGEG does not fit any except the EXACT one it was crafted for
You have 3 cases: (although 1 and 2
could be accomplished together with a more complex REGEX)
series # - title
.+ \d+\s-\s
series - # - title
.+\s-\s\d+\s-\s
(this may work for both this and the above:
.+\s(|-\s)\d+\s-\s
)
series - title
.+\s-\s