Thread: Sort library by length of title (or author, etc) ?
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Old 08-15-2012, 10:57 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
... You can even set a value in a destination (custom) column (like string length if you can figure out if using chaleys advanced template expressions will work here)
I tried setting up a custom column called title_length, where the custom column type was "column built from other columns", but the template I tried to use was {strlen(title)}.

But it only produced error messages in the column that was created.

I obtained the strlen(a) function from http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html .

Any thoughts on how the template should be tweaked, if that sort of approach is okay?
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