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eschwartz · 01-09-2014, 10:33 PM

you can learn all about regular expressions at http://www.regular-expressions.info

you search a particular field -- say, authors or title -- by starting with the name of the field, followed by ":" as in our previous case, search title for "raw", we used "title:" next comes the search term, enclosed in quotes. title:"raw" will search for "raw", title:"~raw" wil search for the REGEX of "raw". Using the regex symbol "\b" we match word boundaries. So to find an author that includes the name "John" we search for

Code:

authors:"~\bJohn\b"

which will NOT match Johnathan, though

Code:

authors:"John"

would match Johnathan.

meta-field:"meta-value" -- search for anything that includes "meta-value" matching within (limited to) type (column) "meta-field".

meta-field:"=meta-value" -- search for the exact value "meta-value" limited to type (column) "meta-field"

meta-field:"~meta-value" -- search for the regex "meta-value" that matches within (limited to) type (column) "meta-field"

AND/OR/NOT/AND NOT/OR NOT can be used to search for multiple things at the same time, they are your standard boolean search operators.

01-09-2014, 10:33 PM	#9
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	you can learn all about regular expressions at http://www.regular-expressions.info you search a particular field -- say, authors or title -- by starting with the name of the field, followed by ":" as in our previous case, search title for "raw", we used "title:" next comes the search term, enclosed in quotes. title:"raw" will search for "raw", title:"~raw" wil search for the REGEX of "raw". Using the regex symbol "\b" we match word boundaries. So to find an author that includes the name "John" we search for Code: authors:"~\bJohn\b" which will NOT match Johnathan, though Code: authors:"John" would match Johnathan. meta-field:"meta-value" -- search for anything that includes "meta-value" matching within (limited to) type (column) "meta-field". meta-field:"=meta-value" -- search for the exact value "meta-value" limited to type (column) "meta-field" meta-field:"~meta-value" -- search for the regex "meta-value" that matches within (limited to) type (column) "meta-field" AND/OR/NOT/AND NOT/OR NOT can be used to search for multiple things at the same time, they are your standard boolean search operators.