Hi everyone, I was messing around with the Actions feature and wanted to make a script that ONLY fills ARTISTSORT with the artists' names that start with "The", "A" or "An" (and their Spanish equivalents), but leaving it empty otherwise. I came up with this script:
$if($eql($regexp(%artist%,^(An?|The|El|Las?|Los?|Una?s?|Unos)\s,),%artist%),,$regexp(%artist%,^(An?|The|El|Las?|Los?|Una?s?|Unos)\s,))
Worked like a charm, but then I realized that only works when the articles have an uppercase. So, I decided to fix the regex to be more efficient by matching upper and lowercases and using brackets for words with similar characters (e.g., unos / unas). This was the result:
$if($eql($regexp(%artist%,^([Aa]n?|[Tt]he|[Ee]l|[Ll][ao]s?|[Uu]na?|[Uu]n[oa]s)\s,),%artist%),,$regexp(%artist%,^([Aa]n?|[Tt]he|[Ee]l|[Ll][ao]s?|[Uu]na?|[Uu]n[oa]s)\s,))
And... nothing happened. I double checked everything and apparently the syntax of the script and the regex were ok (I checked it on RegExr.com). Then I started to test it little by little to find out what part was causing problems. I tested it with this script first:
$if($eql($regexp(%artist%,^The\s,),%artist%),,$regexp(%artist%,^The\s,))
Worked again... then I tried with this one:
$if($eql($regexp(%artist%,^[Tt]he\s,),%artist%),,$regexp(%artist%,^[Tt]he\s,))
And what do you know... it stopped working. Apparently, the brackets were causing problems.
So, I gave up and used the first script I mentioned for uppercase words and duplicate it for the lowercase ones. It's a workaround, but it left me wondering if I'm using the brackets wrong. Does the script parse the brackets in a different way? (Checked the documentation with no results on that subject) Am I overlooking something? Am I that stupid? Is a mp3tag bug? Can't figure it out.
Any kind of advice would be appreciated for sure. Thanks in advance.
PS: If there's a more efficient script or Action, let me know too if posible, please.
