Just a quick but probably dumb question I have to ask for my peace of mind:
Regarding ship2chars.
I've had in my ini for a while now lines like this:
I've preferred to use ^ and $ instead of, for example, "\b" to make sure I don't get duplications or otherwise faulty renamings. Since I never noticed any problems with that, I
assumed it would be ok. Now however, I
have noticed a problem. It's thanks to this link:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/86535
I've downloaded it and later realized I already had it in my library. But, in doing so I also realized that in this new downloaded version I did not have anything in my characters field. Had it not been for the previously downloaded version, I would not have noticed this lack. Because, just the day before I'd downloaded a few fics from ffnet and was disappointed to realize that if the fic doesn't already have anything in the genre/character/ships fields, replace_metadata won't be able to add anything to them. (Yes, should be obvious, true, but apparently not.
)
Strangely, this here:
is actually one of those things that work half the time and the other half not. No idea why.
Similarly, just this alone won't work either:
Anyway, tl;dr:
Does using ^$ in ships make the splitting of ships2chars impossible? (Has it always been so and I've just not noticed?) Or is it just me? Just so I know if I need to go over my ini and replace those with another regex.