Custom Mappings: Can't filter properly

[pannal]

Hey, thank you for this great piece of software.

I'm trying to sanitize queries containing dots, e.g.: "Any Series Name A.B.C." to "Any Series Name".

As far as I can see this currently isn't possible generally. I can add a custom mapping for every show that has dots in it, but not as a generic solution.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Edit: This can be used as a workaround, but is limited to three chars with dots trailing the query:
Input pattern: {title:[^.]+}\.?{trail1:[^.]*}\.?{trail2:[^.]*}\.?{trail3:[^.]*}.*
Output pattern: {title}{trail1}{trail2}{trail3}

[theotherp]

Just to be clear - you want to remove "A.B.C" as a suffix from any query made to hydra? So always that string?

[pannal]

Ideally I'd like to make two fallback queries all the time, even if the initial ID based query matched, and then with and without any dots in the title.

The positioning was only due to the fact that I don't know how to generalize the pattern in hydra.

And no, I want to remove any dots.

[theotherp]

So you mean "Any Series Name A.B.C." to "Any Series Name ABC" (or both).

[pannal]

Exactly. Or "Peter A. B. Gunther" to "Peter A B Gunther" in addition to the one with the dots.

[theotherp]

I've added a switch so that the values may only match parts of the affected string. That way you can remove anything you want from anywhere in the query or title.