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jpbweb · 11-05-2017, 02:57 AM

I have a bunch of eBooks in a Series, and the Series Number is together with the title (usually at the beginning). I'm trying to extract the number and copy it to the Series Number field. I am sure there is an easy way to do so with Search and Replace (I have a number of Search/Replace commands stored and used to good effect).

My problem is that I can edit out all non-numbers from the Title, giving me what I want, but sometimes there are numbers elsewhere in the title (like a Year or something else), that is not filtered out and sticks to what si effectively the series number I need.

A suggestion of syntax would be most welcome. I sifted though te forum, but I found nothing that gets the job done yet.

11-05-2017, 02:57 AM	#1
jpbweb Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2017 Device: iPad	Extract Series Number from Title I have a bunch of eBooks in a Series, and the Series Number is together with the title (usually at the beginning). I'm trying to extract the number and copy it to the Series Number field. I am sure there is an easy way to do so with Search and Replace (I have a number of Search/Replace commands stored and used to good effect). My problem is that I can edit out all non-numbers from the Title, giving me what I want, but sometimes there are numbers elsewhere in the title (like a Year or something else), that is not filtered out and sticks to what si effectively the series number I need. A suggestion of syntax would be most welcome. I sifted though te forum, but I found nothing that gets the job done yet.