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Starson17 · 12-21-2009, 05:37 PM

All of my books are in this format:
Lastname, Firstname - Seriesname 01 - Title.ext

For those who have had to use folders to sort and locate ebooks, it made sense to have the author's last name first, so lots of others have big collections in the Lastname-first format.

Is there any way to reverse the name order during import? I've seen lots of regex expressions, but none seem to deal with this. From what I can see, the regex Python based importing needs the author's name as a single continuous string.

I'd love to see the tags <author-firstname> and <author-lastname> supported so I could do a regex like:

(?P<author-lastname>.+), (?P<author-firstname>.+) - (?P<title>.+)

and have it generate the tag <author> from the two components.

Is it worth opening a wishlist ticket on this? It seems to be a common problem.

12-21-2009, 05:37 PM	#1
Starson17 Wizard Posts: 4,004 Karma: 177841 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T	Lastname, Firstname filenames - Any way to import correct author name? All of my books are in this format: Lastname, Firstname - Seriesname 01 - Title.ext For those who have had to use folders to sort and locate ebooks, it made sense to have the author's last name first, so lots of others have big collections in the Lastname-first format. Is there any way to reverse the name order during import? I've seen lots of regex expressions, but none seem to deal with this. From what I can see, the regex Python based importing needs the author's name as a single continuous string. I'd love to see the tags <author-firstname> and <author-lastname> supported so I could do a regex like: (?P<author-lastname>.+), (?P<author-firstname>.+) - (?P<title>.+) and have it generate the tag <author> from the two components. Is it worth opening a wishlist ticket on this? It seems to be a common problem.