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Mixx · 12-11-2013, 04:23 PM

Hi everyone,

I learned enough about regular expressions that I can extract parts of, say, titles to rearrange them. This time, however, I have a bunch of books of a series and the series number ended up in the title. I can extract that that serial number all right, but when I try to assign it to the series_index field I get the error message that it can not be converted to float.

How do I fix that? There must be some Python magic that is beyond by regexp skills.

Thanxx for any help,

Mixx

PS: May I suggest that in a future release this is taken care of and there is an automatic conversion to float (why float, why not integer BTW) if a number string is assigned to series_index?

12-11-2013, 04:23 PM	#1
Mixx Zealot Posts: 143 Karma: 387 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Bulk Search & Replace Question (regexp) Hi everyone, I learned enough about regular expressions that I can extract parts of, say, titles to rearrange them. This time, however, I have a bunch of books of a series and the series number ended up in the title. I can extract that that serial number all right, but when I try to assign it to the series_index field I get the error message that it can not be converted to float. How do I fix that? There must be some Python magic that is beyond by regexp skills. Thanxx for any help, Mixx PS: May I suggest that in a future release this is taken care of and there is an automatic conversion to float (why float, why not integer BTW) if a number string is assigned to series_index?