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Zifnab · 04-19-2011, 09:31 PM

Ok, now that I know I can search with regex, I am trying to learn how to use regular expressions to help me speed up my cleaning up of my library, but admit I need some help.
Basically, I am trying to find all authors that begin with a certain letter, and at the same time limit the results to all authors that have a comma in their name (and later, without the comma). I tried different variations of: authors:[,][~^b]. but everytime I get no results. I tried some of the examples from the user manual on regular expressions, and they worked great, but when I modified them to do what I am trying to do, again, no results.
So how do I find all authors with a comma and limit the results by those that begin with the letter b, and also a search for all authors without a comma that start with the letter b?
Thanks.

04-19-2011, 09:31 PM	#1
Zifnab Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Aluratek	Regex help: looking for one thing and limiting the other Ok, now that I know I can search with regex, I am trying to learn how to use regular expressions to help me speed up my cleaning up of my library, but admit I need some help. Basically, I am trying to find all authors that begin with a certain letter, and at the same time limit the results to all authors that have a comma in their name (and later, without the comma). I tried different variations of: authors:[,][~^b]. but everytime I get no results. I tried some of the examples from the user manual on regular expressions, and they worked great, but when I modified them to do what I am trying to do, again, no results. So how do I find all authors with a comma and limit the results by those that begin with the letter b, and also a search for all authors without a comma that start with the letter b? Thanks.