Search and Replace Regex Query

joco lamarco · 09-30-2021, 07:33 AM

This is what I'm trying to do without success:

Prepend Series_index values to Title with a similar format to this:
[n] <title>

so that "Sample Book" becomes "[1.0] Sample Book" in a series.

Although it seems straight-forward I'm having trouble with regex on this.

Anyone familiar with this can kindly help?

Thanks,

theducks · 09-30-2021, 10:09 AM

Where are you trying to do this?
IMHO you should NOT be modifying any standard field as it will render 'get metadata' and other tools useless since your value is not what their database has.

Saving to external fils (using Send to Device,folder....), use the builtin template language (that only affects the copy)
[{series_index}] {title} of series

The [] , of series : are literals in this usage

09-30-2021, 07:33 AM	#1
joco lamarco Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: Kindle 4	Search and Replace Regex Query This is what I'm trying to do without success: Prepend Series_index values to Title with a similar format to this: [n] <title> so that "Sample Book" becomes "[1.0] Sample Book" in a series. Although it seems straight-forward I'm having trouble with regex on this. Anyone familiar with this can kindly help? Thanks,

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09-30-2021, 10:09 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,056 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Where are you trying to do this? IMHO you should NOT be modifying any standard field as it will render 'get metadata' and other tools useless since your value is not what their database has. Saving to external fils (using Send to Device,folder....), use the builtin template language (that only affects the copy) [{series_index}] {title} of series The [] , of series : are literals in this usage

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