Quote:
Originally Posted by firefoxxy
I have a regex question. My ini the following lines:
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I'm not sure how to do that because FFF sorts the ships alphabetically, but in this instance I don't want it to sort the ship. I want "past" to be the first part of the whole ship. Could someone help me?
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FFF only sorts the ships alphabetically when you turn on
sort_ships:true.
ships_CHARS specifically operates on the individual characters, those replace lines can't see the whole
ships entry value they come from.
What seems to work for me is to temporarily split 'past' out as it's own 'person' (\, operator), force it to be at the front, then replace it later:
Code:
sort_ships:true
add_to_replace_metadata:
# Split leading 'past' to own (temp) entry, 00 to put at
# front(sort_ships:true assumed)
ships_CHARS=>^[pP]ast (.*)=>00past\,\1
## strip each ships char down to first part only
ships_CHARS=>^([^ ]+).*$=>\1
## Change 00past/ back to "Past "
ships=>^00past\s*(/|&)\s*=>Past\s
Note that in this case, both 'Past Z/A' and 'Z/Past A' will become 'Past A/Z'.