Thread: Splitting multiple author names - RegEx little modification?
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Old 05-27-2020, 12:32 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by font332 View Post
Thank you @davidfor for the formula, it probably doesn't work tho.
I say probably because the way how I checked this is that normally when we are typing the authors in author field and we type "&" symbol, calibre will start to give a list of suggestion for another author. This doesn't happen for ";" symbol.
I think anyway I will not make life more complicated then necessary and I will give up this idea and just convert and use for the future the "&" symbol.
For typing into the author field it probably won't work. The "&" appears to be the trigger the end of an author and to show the drop-down for the next. I think the tweak is more for when calibre is parsing the full author string. Such as when getting the author from the metadata of an existing book. But, it also parses the author when save the changes in the metadata editor.
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