[American_Desi]

I'm going to be honest, I looked at the linked articles, and they don't make a lot of sense to me. I haven't done any programming in years and am just not used to thinking that way. Probably also the problem is that I'm not familiar with the syntax in this kind of programming language.

I can see how to replace text within a given field with different text. I can see how to prepend or append the text.

But what if I want to replace the text within the title with a numerical values in a series that either (a) equal the series index or (b) are equal to arbitrarily defined numbers with beginning, interval, and end numbers set by me. Is there a way to do that with this search/replace dialog?

I tried the following:

search field: title
search for: #: (my comic books are now here listed as (comic book series title)#: (title)
replace with #{series_index}:
destination field: title

This isn't working. Basically I'm trying to get it to transfer the series index number to the title since that is the issue number for the comic. I assume there is a syntax that it understands to effect this... I'm just not sure what it is in spite of reading the linked page.