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I like using sortName to move 'The' to the end of the Movie or TV series name but I have noticed that if the media name has a default year in the title because it's a common title the 'the' gets moved behind the year instead of before the year.

For example:

Using TheTVDB as a source The Outer Limits would become:
Instead of becoming:
Is there anyway to create a custom regex that can correctly swap The or A to the end, but putting it before the year if a year already exists in the default title?

Xiphan wrote: ↑03 Mar 2022, 19:00 Is there anyway to create a custom regex that can correctly swap The or A to the end, but putting it before the year if a year already exists in the default title?

Please read [SNIPPET] Sort Name on how to do just that. Though you'll have to come up with the regex pattern yourself.


I'd just do n.sortName() and then leave it at that. Drop the "The" and make life easy.


If you must have Movie, The (2021) naming though (BAD IDEA; WILL BREAK MATCHING IN THE FUTURE) then I'd do it like this: