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Old 09-19-2012, 08:56 AM   #2
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I have about 200 books in my library where the author and author sort are both in the Lname, Fname format. What is the easiest way to convert author to Fname Lname format? I *imagine* I could do the same thing stripping out publication dates or series names/numbers from titles. If possible, I'd love to be able to do this without writing out the data and re-importing, but would ultimately like to learn how to do this both with metadata manipulation when saving to disk AND some "internal" process. I just can't wrap my head around the coding for parsing out pieces of text and re-ordering them.
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