04-11-2018
Hi amvip,
Your requirements are still a little bit ambiguous...
If there are one or more spaces before the 1st pipe symbol or after the last pipe symbol and there are no characters other than spaces in those fields; are those spaces supposed to be removed, are they supposed to be changed to a single zero character, or are they to be left unchanged? Of your three rules, the first two rules do not apply because the data field is not "between delimiters" and the third rule doesn't apply because there are no characters in the field other than spaces.
The code RudiC suggested in post #4 will turn leading and trailing fields containing only spaces into empty fields. Is that what you want?
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lltag_formats
lltag_formats(5) File Formats Manual lltag_formats(5)
NAME
formats - Internal formats database file for lltag
DESCRIPTION
The internal format database is usually stored in /etc/lltag/formats. The user may override this file by defining a $HOME/.lltag/formats.
If this file exists, the system-wide one is ignored.
These files contain entries starting with a line such as:
[%n - %a - %t]
A title between bracket that will be displayed at runtime.
Then, the following 3 lines must be given to explain how the format is actually used to parse filenames:
type = basename
The type is either basename (to parse the last part of the path to a file) or path (to parse the directory part of the path to a
file). When actually parsing the path to target files, basename and path parsers will be assembled. All possible combination will
be tried.
regexp = %L%N%S-%S%A%S-%S%A%L
A string composed of any characters, with the following special fields:
%L for delimiter (empty by default, multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
%S for a space (or multiple spaces if --spaces was given)
%N for numbers
%A for an alphanumeric string without /
%P for any path (alphanumeric string with /)
%% for %
indices = NUMBER,ARTIST,TITLE
A list of fields to match (either given by their full name or associated letter) corresponding to each %N or %A field in the previ-
ous format. It may be AUTHOR (or a), ALBUM (A), GENRE (g), NUMBER (n), TITLE (t), DATE (d), COMMENT (c) or IGNORE (i). See also
FORMAT in the manpage of lltag for details about these fields.
SEE ALSO
lltag(1)
AUTHOR
Brice Goglin
NOVEMBER 2006 lltag_formats(5)