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macnab69 · 06-16-2013, 01:24 AM

There are 2 questions, question 2 being the ideal situation..

Question 1:
If the book has no series, the file format is
author - title
If it does have series, the current format is
author - [series] [series_number] title

If I use this regex
(?P<author>.+) - \[(?P<series>.+)\] \[(?P<series_index>.+)\] (?P<title>[^_]+)
it works if there is a series, but not of there isn't.

How do I fix this?

Question 2:
I would prefer file format to be
author - [series series_number] title
But what if the series name is say Oceans 11, and the book is number 3 in the series. We'd have
author - [Oceans 11 03] - title
This requires a complicated regex, which is entirely beyond me.

06-16-2013, 01:24 AM	#1
macnab69 Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 5754 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: South Africa Device: Kindle 4	More help needed: regex for add books There are 2 questions, question 2 being the ideal situation.. Question 1: If the book has no series, the file format is author - title If it does have series, the current format is author - [series] [series_number] title If I use this regex (?P<author>.+) - \[(?P<series>.+)\] \[(?P<series_index>.+)\] (?P<title>[^_]+) it works if there is a series, but not of there isn't. How do I fix this? Question 2: I would prefer file format to be author - [series series_number] title But what if the series name is say Oceans 11, and the book is number 3 in the series. We'd have author - [Oceans 11 03] - title This requires a complicated regex, which is entirely beyond me.