[cybmole]

Originally Posted by chaley

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? "

thanks - the 1st case finds 37 out of 1011 books

I also had a quick look for a preferences tweak that would change how those 37 titles are sorted, ( without changing how "The" cases are handled) but could not immediately find one.