Quick Regular Expression Help

Rellwood · 02-03-2023, 12:55 AM

I accidentally deleted spaces between tags and now am stuck with

DarkFantasy instead of Dark Fantasy

is there a regular expression or something that I can do that will fix this in search replace?

Am not about to go through my entire library and fix individually if I can avoid it.

Every tag was title cased so the spaces would be between [a-z][A-Z]

Some tags are more than two words long.

ownedbycats · 02-03-2023, 01:29 AM

Try this:

https://regex101.com/r/J3697t/1

Regex search & replace.

Search for: (?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z0-9])
Replace with: " " (a single space)

ownedbycats · 02-03-2023, 01:35 AM

You can also right-click the category in the Tag Browser to "Manage [Whatever]." Ediitng the entry in there will change it on every book.

Rellwood · 02-03-2023, 02:09 AM

Thanks! I was not about to go through all 3,000 tags in the manage field. It's hard enough to scan through to find the onese that were all bunched up.

THat regex worked! Will save it!

ownedbycats · 02-03-2023, 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rellwood

THat regex worked! Will save it!

Amusingly, I pulled it up so quickly because I had it saved myself

Non-Calibre purposes, though.

02-03-2023, 12:55 AM	#1
Rellwood Library Breeder (She/Her) Posts: 1,268 Karma: 1937891 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Fullerton, California Device: Paperwhite 2015 (2), PW 2024 (12 GEN), PW 2023 (11 GEN), Scribe (1st)	Quick Regular Expression Help I accidentally deleted spaces between tags and now am stuck with DarkFantasy instead of Dark Fantasy is there a regular expression or something that I can do that will fix this in search replace? Am not about to go through my entire library and fix individually if I can avoid it. Every tag was title cased so the spaces would be between [a-z][A-Z] Some tags are more than two words long.

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02-03-2023, 01:29 AM	#2
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,981 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Try this: https://regex101.com/r/J3697t/1 Regex search & replace. Search for: (?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z0-9]) Replace with: " " (a single space)

02-03-2023, 01:35 AM	#3
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,981 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	You can also right-click the category in the Tag Browser to "Manage [Whatever]." Ediitng the entry in there will change it on every book.

02-03-2023, 02:09 AM	#4
Rellwood Library Breeder (She/Her) Posts: 1,268 Karma: 1937891 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Fullerton, California Device: Paperwhite 2015 (2), PW 2024 (12 GEN), PW 2023 (11 GEN), Scribe (1st)	Thanks! I was not about to go through all 3,000 tags in the manage field. It's hard enough to scan through to find the onese that were all bunched up. THat regex worked! Will save it!

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