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Thomas_AR · 03-30-2016, 06:00 PM

Hi folks,
after a long period of abstinence i have again a little question regarding Regex in the search and replace window (Tag Editor)

After adding a lot of books most of them have following content in the author field:

3540 - John Muster, bla bla

What i want to do is filter out everything but the first 4 digits and than insert the result in the Series Index field. I know how to filter out numbers and replace them, but not how to filter everything out but the first numbers.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

03-30-2016, 06:00 PM	#1
Thomas_AR Zealot Posts: 131 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Buenos Aires Device: Android	Regex: Search and Replace Hi folks, after a long period of abstinence i have again a little question regarding Regex in the search and replace window (Tag Editor) After adding a lot of books most of them have following content in the author field: 3540 - John Muster, bla bla What i want to do is filter out everything but the first 4 digits and than insert the result in the Series Index field. I know how to filter out numbers and replace them, but not how to filter everything out but the first numbers. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks