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Originally Posted by africalass
To test it I just went into a random book and added a comma and pretend author to the author column (ie I changed 'Adrian Tchaikovsky' to 'Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brian Smith').
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As a side note: You'd have to use an ampersand to delimit two or more authors.
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Then I selected this book and a random other book, pressed 'E' and went to the search and replace tab. I then chose 'authors' in 'search field' and then below could see that my comma had been interpreted as a vertical line.
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I can't reproduce that. I just tried, and what I'm getting is a comma where you'd expect a comma to be- where I put it. When delimiting authors with an ampersand as above, so that Calibre actually understands that the field contains multiple authors, I get the ampersand replaced by whatever character I select in the search & replace dialog.
Bottom line: Either there's a miscommunication between us, or Calibre is doing something that I just haven't seen yet, or there's something wonky at your end. Could you attach a screenshot of what you've described above? That would at least determine if it's one of the first two possibilities.