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Old 08-22-2013, 01:38 AM   #21
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Hi again guys... had a chance to play around a bit with the regular expressions that were recommended.

That helped me with the titles that have a hyphen in them.
Not able to figure out how to write an expression for titles that just have sequence numbers in them (either at the beginning, or somewhere in the title) that need to be removed.

Doing a straight search/replace for repetitive text is helpful, but I still have more than a thousance titles that have sequence numbers in them still.

when there is/was a hyphen in the title, I was able to figure out how to use a combination of /s-/s and then just as many periods as it took to get the rest (either in front of or behind the hyphen). Trying any combination of that method without a hyphen just means that characters in front of or behind each space get removed... which isn't going to do.

Would you mind terribly helping a girl out?
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