Thread: How about wildcards in Search terms?
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Old 04-04-2021, 05:14 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by abrogard View Post
Sorry guys, I can't understand the manual and all this stuff about regular expressions. Too geeky. I am a simpleton.

I am trying to search for all the text files beginning with ' q' because I think they're all junk.

So I want to input this search string: 'q*.txt'

but, as you'd know, calibre won't accept that.
Have a look at the Advanced Search options, viz:

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"Advanced" is a bit of a misnomer, it's more like a Search Wizard or Helper.

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