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Old 07-25-2014, 04:08 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
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:."
Chaley, thanks for responding. I have lots of conventional tags which don't start with "source:". Will your searches include those? (examples, "Science Fiction" "Biography")

What I really want is to find only the books that have no tag that starts with "source:". These books may or may not have other tags.
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