MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Move date from beginning to end of title w/ regex?

davidfor · 08-03-2018, 02:42 AM

You should be able to get away with:

Search for: (.*?)\s(.*)
Replace with: \2 \1

But, if you accidentally select a title that doesn't have the date, you will mess it up.

So, safer is:

Search for: ([\d-]+)\w(.*)
Replace with: \2 \1

That looks like it won't mess with titles that don't have the date at the start. Unless you have something like "101 Ways to Write Regex in calibre".

And use title for both the Search and destination fields.

08-03-2018, 02:42 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	You should be able to get away with: Search for: (.?)\s(.) Replace with: \2 \1 But, if you accidentally select a title that doesn't have the date, you will mess it up. So, safer is: Search for: ([\d-]+)\w(.*) Replace with: \2 \1 That looks like it won't mess with titles that don't have the date at the start. Unless you have something like "101 Ways to Write Regex in calibre". And use title for both the Search and destination fields.