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Originally Posted by alecE
You know, despite ploughing my way through the O'Reilly book on regex I'm still useless (euphemism) in that area. I don't find that makes Calibre any less great for me. It's a good product, but if you don't like it, you can always use something else, yes?.
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I'm also useless (also a euphemism) in that area. I mostly use pre-written regexes or code my way around the need for them, and swear a lot. Mine tend to be write-only: when I look at the thing six months later, I'm rarely sure what I actually did and usually terrified of trying to change it.
That said, the ones calibre uses tend to be fairly simple. This
handy cheat sheet covers most of what I need, and there are plenty of people here with much better regex-fu than me who will help me out if I ever need one more complicated than I can write myself. Mostly, due to my galloping regexphobia, I try to avoid the need for them entirely.