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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Excellent point... so you could import using
And then select all books, select Edit Metadata, go to the Search and replace tab, and select
Search mode: Regular Expression
Search field: comments
Search for:
Code:
\[Novel\] ([^)(]+)\((.+)\) (\d+) (.*)
Then toggle through the following Replace with and Destination field sets:
for:
title: \1 -- #alt_title: \2 -- series: \1 -- series_index: \3 #status: \4
Replace with: \1
Destination field: title
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Replace with: \2
Destination field: #alt_title
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Replace with: \1
Destination field: series
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Replace with: \3
Destination field: series_index
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Replace with: \4
Destination field: #status
Wheeeee! But ugly as heck and takes quite a few steps. Definitely faster than hand-editing.
@xd1986k, you got that?
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Thanks a lot. Got my whole library set up in four steps

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