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Old 02-08-2021, 04:04 PM   #1
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regex for importing books with comment
In Calibre I have a custom column 'comment'.
When I import a book like 'Lewis Carroll - Alice 01 - Wonderland # illustrated' the text after # should go to this column.

Until a year ago I used for this purpose the regex:
(?P<author>(??!\s-\s).)*)\s*-?\s*[0-9]*\s*(?P<series>(??![0-9]?[0-9-]\.?[0-9]*\s-\s).)*)?\s?(?P<series_index>[0-9]+.?[0-9]*)?\s?-?[0-9]*\s*-\s(?P<title>[^#]+)\s?(?P<comment>[#\s].*)?

But this doesn't work anymore: the text 'illustrated' is not added to the comment column but to the comments section in the Metadata screen.

How can I resolve this?
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Old 02-08-2021, 10:21 PM   #2
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You cant add metadata to custom columns from filenames. Only builtin fields.
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Old 02-08-2021, 10:42 PM   #3
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In Calibre I have a custom column 'comment'.
When I import a book like 'Lewis Carroll - Alice 01 - Wonderland # illustrated' the text after # should go to this column.

Until a year ago I used for this purpose the regex:
(?P<author>(??!\s-\s).)*)\s*-?\s*[0-9]*\s*(?P<series>(??![0-9]?[0-9-]\.?[0-9]*\s-\s).)*)?\s?(?P<series_index>[0-9]+.?[0-9]*)?\s?-?[0-9]*\s*-\s(?P<title>[^#]+)\s?(?P<comment>[#\s].*)?

But this doesn't work anymore: the text 'illustrated' is not added to the comment column but to the comments section in the Metadata screen.

How can I resolve this?
As Kovid said, you cannot update custom columns. In your regex, the "?P<comment>" is the name of the built in comments column (). If this was going to work, you would probably need to use "#comment" to refer to your column.

You should be able to achieve what you want with the GetFileName plugin. It will add the file name to a separate custom column. You can then parse that to your custom columns.
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Old 02-09-2021, 05:55 AM   #4
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It worked allright until about a year ago but since then several updates have come around.
Thanks for your answers.
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Old 02-09-2021, 07:35 PM   #5
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Also, for future reference: Wrapping your regex in [code] tags will make it not convert into smileys:

Code:
(?P<author>(?:(?!\s-\s).)*)\s*-?\s*[0-9]*\s*(?P<series>(?:(?![0-9]?[0-9-]\.?[0-9]*\s-\s).)*)?\s?(?P<series_index>[0-9]+.?[0-9]*)?\s?-?[0-9]*\s*-\s(?P<title>[^#]+)\s?(?P<comment>[#\s].*)?
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Thanks, Ownedbycats, I was wondering how that came about.
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