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jecilop · 12-16-2015, 01:06 AM

1st - Preferences/Adding Books/The Add Process tab - uncheck the first box "Read metadata from file contents rather than the file name"

2nd - same place - at the bottom there is a test area where you can type a file name as above and play with the Regular Expression field to get what you want.
There are some pull down pre-made templates. This one: (?P<title>.+) will do exactly what you want as above. Note, however, it does NOT yield an author. That yields Unknown.

I just played with the expression: (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?

It will give an author name and what you want IF your file names are set up such as:

Author Name - Space Opera 01 - An adventure.

12-16-2015, 01:06 AM	#3
jecilop Addict Posts: 260 Karma: 139980 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Android	1st - Preferences/Adding Books/The Add Process tab - uncheck the first box "Read metadata from file contents rather than the file name" 2nd - same place - at the bottom there is a test area where you can type a file name as above and play with the Regular Expression field to get what you want. There are some pull down pre-made templates. This one: (?P<title>.+) will do exactly what you want as above. Note, however, it does NOT yield an author. That yields Unknown. I just played with the expression: (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ? It will give an author name and what you want IF your file names are set up such as: Author Name - Space Opera 01 - An adventure.