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Paulie_D · 05-09-2015, 12:48 PM

I've been experimenting with the Regex to parse book details from filenames under the "Preferences/Adding Books" and have had some success.

However, some of my poorer attempts at Regular Expressions are something I would like to get rid of but Calibre seems to remember them all and there doesn't seem to be any mechanism to remove the ones I no longer need or want.

Are these 'manual' ones stored somewhere I can delete them?

I know that some expressions are 'built in' to Calibre and obviously I'd like to keep those.

Finally, a suggestion if I may for the benefit of the less technical of us...could we have a Expression Name Field so we can name the expressions ourselves as some of them are somewhat hard to parse at a glance for us non-experts at regex.

Eg.

Code:

(?P<series>[^_0-9]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

Now I can figure out what this means eventually but a simple name or example would be much easier to read.

05-09-2015, 12:48 PM	#1
Paulie_D Connoisseur Posts: 67 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Kindle 3, Samsung Tab 4	Adding Books - Filename Regex Management I've been experimenting with the Regex to parse book details from filenames under the "Preferences/Adding Books" and have had some success. However, some of my poorer attempts at Regular Expressions are something I would like to get rid of but Calibre seems to remember them all and there doesn't seem to be any mechanism to remove the ones I no longer need or want. Are these 'manual' ones stored somewhere I can delete them? I know that some expressions are 'built in' to Calibre and obviously I'd like to keep those. Finally, a suggestion if I may for the benefit of the less technical of us...could we have a Expression Name Field so we can name the expressions ourselves as some of them are somewhat hard to parse at a glance for us non-experts at regex. Eg. Code: (?P<series>[^_0-9])(?P<series_index>[0-9])\s-(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s\s(?P<title>[^_].+) ? Now I can figure out what this means eventually* but a simple name or example would be much easier to read.