Search & Replace "wildcards"?

[LoveMyKobo]

I'm trying to edit the author fields in a library, because it has the author name, a hyphen, and a series name. I just want the author's name.

Example: Woods, Stuart - Stone Barrington 00

Is there a "wildcard" character I can use to replace everything after and including the hyphen with nothing?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by LoveMyKobo

I'm trying to edit the author fields in a library, because it has the author name, a hyphen, and a series name. I just want the author's name.

Example: Woods, Stuart - Stone Barrington 00

Is there a "wildcard" character I can use to replace everything after and including the hyphen with nothing?

You want to keep the first wild card match

Warning this will match any title text that is hyphenated

also note: the pattern below is space hyphen space then wild-card
so wild-card is safe and wild - card will go bye-bye

(.+) - .+

the replace is a simple: \1 into the title field

[LoveMyKobo]

Thanks so much! It worked perfectly.

[ArmorDog]

Regex is basically magic. =]