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Horus68 · 09-26-2019, 10:24 AM

Done reading that tutorial but its hard for me to understand the code partes without a live example. My bad... so much to learn and I'm not a programmer!
Can someone paste me an example for replacing a : in title with - (for the save to disk template)
Then I can play with it and find some other uses (as in removing punctuation marks form file name)!

Update, giving a copy/paste ready example:
Using re(pattern, replacement)
(the details are in the quoted tutorial: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html )

Actual behaviour:
When a title field has a value with ":" (as in "Title: subtitle") the ":" would cause a filename with "_space" instead of the ":" as in the file name

Code:

Title_ subtitle.pdf

Instead... you can have a filename with "space-" as in "Title - subtitle".
For that use this in "Save to disk" Template (for the title field part)

Code:

{title:re(:, -)}

I'm sure there could be better solutions as I'm a newbie and probably only useful for other newbies like me.

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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=263504
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=169516

09-26-2019, 10:24 AM	#3
Horus68 Zealot Posts: 143 Karma: 76596 Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Portugal Device: Kobo Aura HD	Done reading that tutorial but its hard for me to understand the code partes without a live example. My bad... so much to learn and I'm not a programmer! Can someone paste me an example for replacing a : in title with - (for the save to disk template) Then I can play with it and find some other uses (as in removing punctuation marks form file name)! Update, giving a copy/paste ready example: Using re(pattern, replacement) (the details are in the quoted tutorial: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html ) Actual behaviour: When a title field has a value with ":" (as in "Title: subtitle") the ":" would cause a filename with "_space" instead of the ":" as in the file name Code: Title_ subtitle.pdf Instead... you can have a filename with "space-" as in "Title - subtitle". For that use this in "Save to disk" Template (for the title field part) Code: {title:re(:, -)} I'm sure there could be better solutions as I'm a newbie and probably only useful for other newbies like me. Related topics with same question https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=263504 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=169516 Last edited by Horus68; 09-28-2019 at 06:30 AM.