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Originally Posted by Joan M
I used Edit Metadata in Bulk to search the Authors field for the character ; and replace it with the character &. Yes, I have a backup. Yes, I tried a test first and the replace seemed to work properly.
After this operation on around 700 titles, I used Advanced Search/Author to search for all instances of "&". The search finds zero results. Searching on other fields for the character "&" does return results. I am not missing any records that I can tell.
Any thoughts on why this is?
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Symbols can be special characters.
In REGEX Mode, always escape special characters(like): \& \. \+ \?
so they are treated as characters, not controls