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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Whoops, I stand corrected.  Should've known.
Should check these things first before I blab, eh?
So you can search to match "Mystery" but not "Mystery/Thrillers". |
Some food for thought. And for experimentation. Going into the tests, I had to admit to being fearful about dispensing with the = signs, as my experience with unindexed searches is that it takes a long time (I have a lot of books, so the pain is self-inflicted to a large degree).
Well, it appears that my fears were totally unfounded. Changing search terms from a multiplicity of Mystery variants in the form of tags:"=Mystery" proved unnecessary. tags:"Mystery" got Mystery and it also got Mystery & Detective as you expected. That knowledge changes my interpretation of what I CAN do to a very large degree. Furthermore, getting the in-line negation code fragment now allows me to do IF THEN's to my programming heart's delight. It will let me write smarter searches that leave fewer incoming books as uncategorized.
Thank you. You doggedness in getting it right is much appreciated.