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Varo · 01-10-2022, 09:48 AM

Hello,

All my series have non-english characters in them and the english part is enclosed by square brackets.

Example of a series name: 魔法科高校の劣等生 [Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei]

I want to be able to change this using the template and only have the english part of the series name like this: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

Towards that end I tried using this:

Code:

{series:re('[^\x00-\x7F]+', '')}/{title}

It would replace all non english characters with nothing. However it does not seem to work. Additionally, if I try to also remove the square brackets in the regex expression like this:

Code:

{series:re('[^\x00-\x7F]+|\[|\]', '')}/{title}

I get an invalid format specifier error eventhough the regex exp should be fine.

Any help would be really appreciated.

01-10-2022, 09:48 AM	#1
Varo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2022 Device: Galaxy S9+	Regex expression to edit series when saving books to disk not working. Hello, All my series have non-english characters in them and the english part is enclosed by square brackets. Example of a series name: 魔法科高校の劣等生 [Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei] I want to be able to change this using the template and only have the english part of the series name like this: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Towards that end I tried using this: Code: {series:re('[^\x00-\x7F]+', '')}/{title} It would replace all non english characters with nothing. However it does not seem to work. Additionally, if I try to also remove the square brackets in the regex expression like this: Code: {series:re('[^\x00-\x7F]+\|\[\|\]', '')}/{title} I get an invalid format specifier error eventhough the regex exp should be fine. Any help would be really appreciated.