[lina.w]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

chaley -- good idea! I haven't really used cmp before, in case you couldn't tell.


lina.w -- pretend I didn't write that. Tested this time.

program:

formatted_series = finish_formatting(
    field('series_index'),
    '0>4.1f',      #fixed
    ' [',          #fixed
    '] '           #fixed
);
stripped_series = re(
    formatted_series,
    '\.0+',        #fixed
    ''
);

# Add together the final result
strcat(
    field('series'),
    stripped_series,
    field('title')
);

Or as chaley said, because it is semantically correct as opposed to a filthy regex kludge.

program:

sidx=field('series_index');
i=format_number(sidx, "{:02d}");
f=format_number(sidx, "{:04.1f}");
isInt=cmp(f, i, '', 'yes', '');
final_sidx=finish_formatting(
    test(isInt, i, f),
    '',
    ' [',
    '] '
);

# Add together the final result
strcat(
    field('series'),
    final_sidx,
    field('title')
);

It worked, eschwartz!! Thank you for being so patient with me and for all your help! You are the best!!

And thank you Terisa de morgan & chaley for helping out & answering my questions too. You guys are awesome!

* * e d i t e d * *

this is just a minor problem, but now that I've got the formatting the way I want to, I'm just wondering why [01.5] appears before [01]? Say if I have a series with books with the following numberings [01], [02], and [03]. If I have a novella that goes between each, it should be in this order: [01], [01.5], [02], [02.5], [03], but the current order is [01.5], [01], [02.5], [02], [03]. I'm guessing there is no way to work around fixing this, so would my only option to getting the ordering right be going back to the previous formatting method?