"""Parse a stated page number/range out of a post's title/description (FC-6.2). Artists often state where an installment sits in a series — "pages 9-12", "Page 5", "[3/8]". We use that to order chapters and flag missing-page gaps. This is best-effort: a confident match wins, otherwise we return None and the caller falls back to capture/post-date order. Keep it conservative — a wrong page number is worse than no page number — so matches require an explicit page keyword (page/pg/pp) or a bracketed N/M fraction, never a bare number. Supported forms (case-insensitive): range "pages 9-12", "pg 9–12", "pp. 9 - 12" -> (9, 12) fraction "page 3 of 8", "pg 3/8", "[3/8]", "(3/8)" -> (3, 3) single "page 5", "pg 5", "pp 5" -> (5, 5) """ import re # Page keyword: page/pages/pg/pgs/pp/pp. (NOT a bare "p" — too many false hits.) _KW = r"(?:pages?|pgs?|pp\.?)" _DASH = r"[-–—]" _RANGE = re.compile(rf"\b{_KW}\s*(\d{{1,4}})\s*{_DASH}\s*(\d{{1,4}})", re.I) _OF = re.compile(rf"\b{_KW}\s*(\d{{1,4}})\s*(?:of|/)\s*\d{{1,4}}\b", re.I) _BRACKET = re.compile(r"[\[(]\s*(\d{1,4})\s*/\s*\d{1,4}\s*[\])]") _SINGLE = re.compile(rf"\b{_KW}\s*(\d{{1,4}})\b", re.I) def parse_page_range(text: str | None) -> tuple[int, int] | None: """Return (start, end) or None. start <= end; a single page yields (n, n).""" if not text: return None m = _RANGE.search(text) if m: a, b = int(m.group(1)), int(m.group(2)) return (a, b) if a <= b else (b, a) for rx in (_OF, _BRACKET, _SINGLE): m = rx.search(text) if m: n = int(m.group(1)) return (n, n) return None