[chaley]

Originally Posted by cybmole

out of curiosity I tried to wild card search All my book titles so how many had the title form " A blahblahblah.." but could not figure out the sort syntax.

title:"~^a "

The ~ means the search uses a regular expression. The regexp begins with the anchor ^, which indicates that whatever follows it must be at the beginning of the phrase (the title in this case). The characters "a " (letter 'a' then space) are what must be at the beginning. It is quoted so that the space is considered part of the regexp.

For completeness, this search looks for a leading "a" or "an" followed by a space.

title:"~^a(n | )"

The following does the same thing.

title:"~^an? "