I am undertaking a major re-tagging exercise and wish to standardise Artist entries in the format 'Last name, First Name'. At present a huge number of entries are in the format 'First name, Last Name' and I want to change all of these so that. for example, 'John Coltrane' becomes 'Coltrane, John'.
Is there a way I can set up an action to automate this?
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Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions
Multiple value artist tag to multiple value artistsort
Need help with regex for ARTISTSORT
Action: Format value
Field: ARTIST
Format string: $regexp(%ARTIST%,'([^;]+)(\s[^;]+)','$2, $1')
From:
"Rolling Stones"
To:
" Stones, Rolling"
From:
"John Lewis;Mick Jagger;Ringo Harrison"
To:
" Lewis, John; Jagger, Mick; Harrison, Ringo"
DD.20120629.1914.CEST
Many Thanks, DetlevD. Unfortunately at present the Action leaves me with a leading space at the beginning of the new name, which of course means that my control point now puts it at the beginning of the alphabetical sort. I have experimented but can't work out how to amend the format to ensure that there is no leading space in the new name.
Have a look at the trim functions $trim, $trimLeft, $trimRight to remove surrounding spaces.
Try this ... for only one artist name
$regexp(%ARTIST%,'([^;]+)\s([^;]+)','$2, $1')Try this ... for multiple artist names
$trimLeft($regexp(%ARTIST%,'([^;]+)(\s[^;]+)','$2, $1'))... or ...
$trimLeft($regexp(%ARTIST%,'([^;]+)\s([^;]+)',' $2, $1'))DD.20120630.1120.CEST
That worked fine, DetlevD. It will save me an enormous amount of work. Many Thanks for your help.