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Old 07-24-2014, 05:09 PM   #2
chaley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny View Post
But what I really want is a generic search. I tried

not tags:"=source:*"

but that didn't work. Obviously I don't know how to indicate a match for any and all characters. (And I have a suspicion that this has something to do with regular expressions which I simply don't seem to be able to understand.)
Try
Code:
not tags:"~^source:"
which is a regular expression search saying find any tags not beginning with "source:". The star in your attempt is superfluous because you don't care what follows the colon. If you actually want to ensure that there is at least one character after the colon then use
Code:
not tags:"~^source:."
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