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anandkarthikeyan · 01-14-2014, 11:43 PM

I have a bunch of files formatted like this "surname_firstname_t_i_t_l_e.format", for instance, like "kermode_frank_sense_of_an_ending.pdf"

The problem is that I have used no other separators to identify where the author field stops or the title begins. To add these books, I want help with a regEx that will recognise the first two units as containing the metadata for the author and the rest for the title. Thanks.

01-14-2014, 11:43 PM	#1
anandkarthikeyan Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: kindle	regex to add books; filenames with only underscores as separators I have a bunch of files formatted like this "surname_firstname_t_i_t_l_e.format", for instance, like "kermode_frank_sense_of_an_ending.pdf" The problem is that I have used no other separators to identify where the author field stops or the title begins. To add these books, I want help with a regEx that will recognise the first two units as containing the metadata for the author and the rest for the title. Thanks.