Regular Expression adding book published date

jbcmars · 01-08-2011, 01:27 PM

Dear All,

I have been looking aroung a bit and I have not found anything on how to add a published date in the adding book section.

Most of my books (actually research papers) have the following format:
Author - Year - Title
where Year is the year the article had been published.

I tried this as a regular expression in the Adding books - Configure metadata from file name
(?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<pubdate>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+)

But this is not working. I do get the author and title correctly but not the published date.

Can anyone help ?

Thank you

GRiker · 01-08-2011, 02:32 PM

This should be in the regular forum, not the recipes subforum.

G

kovidgoyal · 01-08-2011, 09:23 PM

the only metadata that can be read from filenames is what is described in the adding books preferences, IIRC, pubdate is not included.

01-08-2011, 01:27 PM	#1
jbcmars Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony PRS-505	Regular Expression adding book published date Dear All, I have been looking aroung a bit and I have not found anything on how to add a published date in the adding book section. Most of my books (actually research papers) have the following format: Author - Year - Title where Year is the year the article had been published. I tried this as a regular expression in the Adding books - Configure metadata from file name (?P<author>[^_]+) - (?P<pubdate>[^_]+) - (?P<title>.+) But this is not working. I do get the author and title correctly but not the published date. Can anyone help ? Thank you

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01-08-2011, 02:32 PM	#2
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	This should be in the regular forum, not the recipes subforum. G

01-08-2011, 09:23 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 44,162 Karma: 22670164 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	the only metadata that can be read from filenames is what is described in the adding books preferences, IIRC, pubdate is not included.

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