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Old 03-30-2016, 06:34 AM   #1
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Regular Expression help: complicated remaming of titles

I'm trying to rename a few hundred magazines using regular expressions in the EDIT METADATA|SEARCH & REPLACE, but I'm not getting anywhere. I read the reference, but the more I read it the more confused I get.

Here's a sample of three titles I now have:

Quote:
202 (Winter 2009) Tools & Shops
025 (Dec 1980)
178
The numbers are actually issue (series) numbers. I want to use the search and replace to change them all to look like this:

Quote:
Fine Woodworking 202: Fine Woodworking Magazine № 202 (Winter 2009) Tools & Shops
Fine Woodworking 025: Fine Woodworking Magazine № 025 (Dec 1980)
Fine Woodworking 178: Fine Woodworking Magazine № 178
(The "Fine Woodworking NNN:" part sets the series number, which I can later use the "Clean Metadata" plugin to move it to the series column.)

So, I'm stumped. The part that I can't figure out is how to take the number and repeat it in prepended text as shown, followed by a colon. What's the most painless way to make this happen? I really have no clue.

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