Thread: How to search Author column for "The " or "A "
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Old 07-21-2014, 05:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Inferno View Post
What option? and wouldn't that code get titles with the?

I look at Quality Check and see that Search ePubs searches inside the epub (not what I want). I only want to check the author field.

I am looking for those books that have the title and author switched or the author not filled in correctly.

It seems that the quality check needs to look inside the epub to find this information. I just want to be able to search the author field for "the " or "A "

Is there no way to search for "the" followed by whitespace just in the Author column without having to go through every file.

I started running the quality check but it will take hours for the entire library. Longer than searching individually
Most of the QC metadata checks work on the DB, not the books.
A MD check on 5K books takes less than 5min on a lowly P4 running XP

There are also many Book checks, and yes, those do take time, but not hours.
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