This is probably very basic, but I saw nothing in the FAQ about it, and I didn't have any luck with constructing a search string that produced results.
If I have a title of Recit: Bellissima Romilda (Serse), what is the regular expression to remove everything up to the first colon-plus-space?
And what would the regular expression be to remove everything from the last-space-plus-open-bracket to the end of the string?
I am almost certain it would be possible to construct a single regular expression to do both things, but I think seeing two separate ones would help me learn the principles better.
I want to end up with a title of just Bellissima Romilda, in other words.
Replying to your own posts is probably the first sign of madness, but I've managed to achieve the result I was after, despite not having a clue what I was doing! So if anyone else is ever minded to convert a track such as:
Recit: Some text (sung by Elvira)
...to plain old
Some text
...then the answer was to create two actions.
First, the colon stripper: the action type is 'Format value', the field is TITLE, the format string is
$regexp(%TITLE%,^(.)(: )(.)$,$3)
Second, the bracket stripper: Action type is Replace with regular expression, the field is TITLE, the regular expression is
^(.)(()(.)$
...and the Replace matches with is $1.
I figure the first example could be created as a 'replace with regular expression', too, in the same fashion as the second example. Or vice versa, I suppose. But this worked for me, so I'm not messing with it!
I'm looking for something similar and was wondering if someone could help. I want to strip anything within brackets including: , { } , and ( ). Additionally, there could be multiple brackets within the filename.
I think you need no similar regexp function but a simple replace function.
Create an action group and in there a series of replace actions.
Each action should replace one of your desired characters to remove, e.g. replace '[' (open bracket character) by a ' ' (space character), and so on.
If double spaces would be created in this process add a last action to replace double spaces by one space.