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Old 07-12-2012, 08:53 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
Do note that this regexp will find books with any author having a name containing more than one comma. It will not find books with multiple authors, each containing a comma. For example, it will find "Blogs, PhD, Joe" but it will not find "Blogs, Joe & Sneeze, Sam". Depending on what you are doing, this distinction will matter.
I see the distinction.

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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
It tells search that what follows is a regular expression. It is similar to the "=" that tells search that what follows must be a complete match, and the period that tells search that what follows is a hierarchical match.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude View Post
In this particular case it tells calibre that what follows is to be treated as a regular expression.
Thank you both. I knew I'd read about tilde somewhere. Turns out I'd seen it in the manual just last week, under search interface for using regex in quick search. How fast I forget...

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