Export help needed please

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

The only problem now is that the comments metadata has all the tags, for example:

<div><p class="description">SUMMARY:</p><p class="description">The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara, Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked when Poirot declared that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, that ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?</p></div>

Any way I can eliminate these from the catalog export?

Thank you.

The export feature exports whatever is in the database. If you want to remove markup from your comments, you can do so the Edit metadata dialog.

Feel free to submit an enhancement request to optionally strip markup from comments during a CSV/XML export. It's not something that I would find useful, so I wouldn't code it, but perhaps a motivated user/programmer would.

G

[kakkalla]

I'd like (if possible) to do this en masse. I've selected three books in calibre. Then I have selected Edit Metadata in bulk. But I can't see anything there that would allow me to remove the tags. I've looked in the Search and replace tab but that looks daunting.

Should I be looking in the preferences section?

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by kakkalla

I'd like (if possible) to do this en masse. I've selected three books in calibre. Then I have selected Edit Metadata in bulk. But I can't see anything there that would allow me to remove the tags. I've looked in the Search and replace tab but that looks daunting.

Should I be looking in the preferences section?

It might be possible in the Edit metadata|Search and Replace tab. Try asking in the Conversion subforum. If it's not currently possible with the existing tools, you can create an enhancement request.

G

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by GRiker

It might be possible in the Edit metadata|Search and Replace tab. Try asking in the Conversion subforum. If it's not currently possible with the existing tools, you can create an enhancement request.

G

I think something like, in regex mode, searching for <.*?> and replacing it with an empty string in the comments field ought to remove any markup that is present. The usual qualifiers apply: You may damage your library, use at your own risk, use the test cases Calibre supplies.