Thread: Regular Expression in Adding Books
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Old 03-26-2020, 08:20 AM   #4
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There were some extra spaces in what @dunhill posted. And that first quote probably should have been a question mark. I think what he meant was:

Code:
(?P<publisher>.+?) - (?P<author>[^_]+?) - (?P<title>.+)
And the question mark after the plus is to make the matching non-greedy.

To get the comment as well:

Code:
(?P<publisher>.+?) - (?P<author>[^_]+?) - (?P<title>.+?) - (?P<comments>.+)
I haven't tested that in calibre. I did check it using https://regex101.com/.
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