Help with Reg-ex of Course

[pappabees61]

Hello all and thank you for reading this post and hopefully replying. I am not very good with Regex but have been trying stuff and can't make this happen.
I have over 100 books that have this in the authors name
Osprey - Warrior 136.. of course the others have different numbers.
I would like to move this to series and series index and I get that it will probably have to be done in two passes however I can't seem to get the bulk editor to replace just the two first words without the - sign.

I can have the search field with authors
and search for (.?) - (.?)
which I am used to having it bring up two fields separated by a dash however just the first field brings the entire string into the test result area
so it looks like this
Book 1: Osprey - Warrior 136
Book 2: Osprey - Warrior 137

I have selected the destination field to be series but the test has the entire string in it. How do I select just Osprey Warrior for the first pass and then change to Series Index for the 2nd pass and just get the numbers?

any help is greatly appreciated.

[davidfor]

The problem is the regex. ".?" will match zero or one character. You probably need to use:

(.*) - (.*)

Then use "\1" for the first part, and "\2" for the second in the replace field.