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Originally Posted by edeniz

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Ok, that's how I understood it, especially since I've had to add characters lines as well if I wanted names in ships to be changed. But if that is right, basically lines like this:

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 ships=>^John Sheppard\/Rodney McKay$=>Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
 ships=>^Cordelia\/Xander$=>Xander Harris/Cordelia Chase

should pose no problem, shouldn't it? Because, again using this story as an example case, using a line like the above means it will make the replacement, but the ships will not be split into characters. My characters field remains empty.

No ships lines, including those, effect the ships2chars lines when ships2chars is defined by include_in_ships2chars:ships.NOREPL.

I've just tested (again) with that story and it gets the two characters just fine.

The entirety of the personal.ini I used is:

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# 2nd Test Library
[defaults]
is_adult:true

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add_to_extra_valid_entries:,ships2chars
include_in_ships2chars:ships.NOREPL

add_to_replace_metadata:
 ships=>^John Sheppard\/Rodney McKay$=>Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
 ships2chars=>[ ]*/[ ]*=>/
 ships2chars=>[ ]*&[ ]*=>/
 ships2chars=>([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2\,\3\,\4
 ships2chars=>([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2\,\3
 ships2chars=>([^/]+)/(.+)=>\1\,\2

include_in_characters:characters,ships2chars

So you're still having a problem, it's something else.