Quote:
Originally Posted by eschwartz
At some point I thought I'd try list_re to fix your example.
But I discovered this:
Code:
program:
list_re(
field('author_sort'),
'&',
'(.*)',
'\1'
)
gave me "LN1&FN1&LN2&FN2" -- isn't it supposed to search for "(.*)" and replace with "\1" on each list element where "&" is the separator? I cannot imagine what I might be doing wrong.  But this looks completely crazy. |
It works fine for me. The names come out exactly as they went in, except that the spaces are gone from around the &. I have no idea why you are seeing what you are seeing.
BTW: a better fix would be to use the new function list_re_group so you can separate the identification of which names to include from the munging of the names.