Evening Gents. This has been 'answered' on numerous posts but unfortunately I have yet to find any of the example regex postings to work (typically deletes everything but the actual song title). I have a few songs with TITLE like
Something (Ft Mama Jane) (Prod. None)
I want to remove the second set of parenthesis completely so it just says
Something (Ft Mama Jane)
Can anyone clue me into the expression to use?
Try:
$regexp('Something (Ft Mama Jane) (Prod. None)','(.*\)) \(.*\)',$1)
It stripped everything...Made it just say Something
Would it be easier to just ask how to regex and remove anything that is (Prod.
You are correct; it works on that particular song. i should have probably led with that; that is my fault
What i meant to say was that it doesnt work on other songs unless i implicitly add the song title and the Ft quote for the new song. Is there a way to do it so it dynamically does that to all songs I have that are like that?
I assumed that you are able to replace the fixed string with the field variable.
So, does
$regexp(%title%,'(.*\)) \(.*\)',$1)
work?
... and it would really help if you showed real examples, preferably with a screenshot.
I realized what I was doing wrong. I was doing it under actions (which doesnt work there) instead of under convert using tag-tag.
That works! I appreciate it!
It does work with an action of the type "Format value".
If you want to use "Replace with regular expression", you have to split up the 3 parts of $regexp() into the 3 parameters in the action dialogue.
But again: all these different assumptions could have been avoided with screenshots.
needle: "(\)) \(.*"
replacement: "$1"
