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vFbjgBDhV · 01-08-2021, 12:51 PM

Many books in my library have titles composed of the actual title and other strings added by the publisher.
For example:

"A Sunday in the Countryside (Hungarian Edition)"
"The Holy Bible (Hungarian Edition)"
"Revolution and anti-capitalist subversion (Hungarian Edition)"
"Chess and Tarot (Hungarian Edition)"

I would like to clear all titles by deleting the string "(Hungarian Edition)" in a single step.
It would be very easy if you could use a regular expression, for example:

Code:

search in titles: (.*?)\s*\(Hungarian Edition\)
replace: \1

Is it possible to use regular expressions to normalize the metadata of a group of books?

01-08-2021, 12:51 PM	#1
vFbjgBDhV Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2020 Device: none	Regular expressions to normalize the metadata Many books in my library have titles composed of the actual title and other strings added by the publisher. For example: "A Sunday in the Countryside (Hungarian Edition)" "The Holy Bible (Hungarian Edition)" "Revolution and anti-capitalist subversion (Hungarian Edition)" "Chess and Tarot (Hungarian Edition)" I would like to clear all titles by deleting the string "(Hungarian Edition)" in a single step. It would be very easy if you could use a regular expression, for example: Code: search in titles: (.?)\s\(Hungarian Edition\) replace: \1 Is it possible to use regular expressions to normalize the metadata of a group of books?