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Old 06-13-2011, 01:57 PM   #30
Starson17
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
If you prefix the search text with a tilde ('~'), then you're in regular expression mode.
That said, I'd rather not include search expressions, but if there are clever searches using regular expressions, I'll think about it.
I find it odd that you would exclude search expressions from a regex tutorial. I find that I use them quite often.

They are particularly useful for searching for subtle errors in the title/author. For example, looking for double spaces:
Code:
title:"~\s\s"
finds them, but this won't work:
Code:
title:"  "
Or suppose I want to look at all the books where the author's last name starts with B:
Code:
author_sort:"~^B.*"
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