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TTC · 08-26-2009, 02:37 AM

Hi, I've had a search through a few of these threads to see if anyone has asked this question before, but I couldn't find it, so apologies if I missed it somewhere.

A lot of my filenames are in the following format:
Surname, Firstname - Title
or
Surname, Firstname - Series # - Title

My problem is that when I start the expression with the default (?P<author>[^_]+) it puts the author details in back to front and messes up the author sort as well.

How do I go about reversing the surname and the first name in the expression so that the Author field is populated correctly? I've looked at the guide for regular expressions, but it's a bit above my head at the moment, although I'm persevering to try and wrap my head around it.

08-26-2009, 02:37 AM	#10
TTC Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: ipod touch	Hi, I've had a search through a few of these threads to see if anyone has asked this question before, but I couldn't find it, so apologies if I missed it somewhere. A lot of my filenames are in the following format: Surname, Firstname - Title or Surname, Firstname - Series # - Title My problem is that when I start the expression with the default (?P<author>[^_]+) it puts the author details in back to front and messes up the author sort as well. How do I go about reversing the surname and the first name in the expression so that the Author field is populated correctly? I've looked at the guide for regular expressions, but it's a bit above my head at the moment, although I'm persevering to try and wrap my head around it.