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StillReading · 10-09-2015, 01:39 AM

I've been using searches like this for a while:

Code:

author_sort:"~(^[AaBbCcDd])|(&\s*[AaBbCcDd])"

This works perfectly fine, but on multi-author books it matches all authors that begin with the respective letters. Is there a way to search only for the the first "author_sort" entry? The only idea I can come up with is to create a custom field and use the "list_item" template function to fill it, but I'd prefer to use a search instead if possible.

10-09-2015, 01:39 AM	#1
StillReading Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: none	Search for first author_sort entry starting with letter x I've been using searches like this for a while: Code: author_sort:"~(^[AaBbCcDd])\|(&\s*[AaBbCcDd])" This works perfectly fine, but on multi-author books it matches all authors that begin with the respective letters. Is there a way to search only for the the first "author_sort" entry? The only idea I can come up with is to create a custom field and use the "list_item" template function to fill it, but I'd prefer to use a search instead if possible.