Adding books, conditional file name matching

cwdavi1 · 02-16-2012, 10:22 AM

I'm new to this forum, pardon me if this is covered somewhere but I couldn't find it. I've fumbled out how to do most of the things I want to with Calibre but I'm stumped on adding books where some have a series and others don't. I have an re that correctly parses each one but can't come up with one that will correctly parse both.

Example file names:

Alisa Sheckley - Abra Barrow 2 - Moonburn.epub
Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones, The.epub

Obviously I want the first parsed as <author> <series> <series_index> <title>
and the second as <author> <title> with NULL <series> and <series_index>.

I will greatly appreciate any help.

Thank you,

Wayne Davis

speakingtohe · 02-16-2012, 05:33 PM

Can't actually help(oh I am afraid.

I used to change expressions on the fly and gave up on it as it was a pain.
Now I just add the books and use the download metadata function to correct them.

9 times out of 10 it works for me.

Helen

02-16-2012, 10:22 AM	#1
cwdavi1 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Samsung Galaxy S2	Adding books, conditional file name matching I'm new to this forum, pardon me if this is covered somewhere but I couldn't find it. I've fumbled out how to do most of the things I want to with Calibre but I'm stumped on adding books where some have a series and others don't. I have an re that correctly parses each one but can't come up with one that will correctly parse both. Example file names: Alisa Sheckley - Abra Barrow 2 - Moonburn.epub Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones, The.epub Obviously I want the first parsed as <author> <series> <series_index> <title> and the second as <author> <title> with NULL <series> and <series_index>. I will greatly appreciate any help. Thank you, Wayne Davis

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02-16-2012, 05:33 PM	#2
speakingtohe Wizard Posts: 4,812 Karma: 26912940 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: sony PRS-T1 and T3, Kobo Mini and Aura HD, Tablet	Can't actually help(oh I am afraid. I used to change expressions on the fly and gave up on it as it was a pain. Now I just add the books and use the download metadata function to correct them. 9 times out of 10 it works for me. Helen

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