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chaley · 01-21-2010, 11:39 AM

Somehow I ended up with the tag "e" somewhere in my library. I tried searching for "e" to remove it, but the search found practically every book. I then tried tag:"e", but this found (apparently) every book with the letter 'e' in some tag. I tried "^e$" (regexp), but that didn't work at all. I tried the advance option "exact phrase", with no joy.

My guess is that the search system is using a 'contains' search. Is there a way to force it to use exact match? Better yet, is there a way to make search use a regexp?

01-21-2010, 11:39 AM	#1
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,453 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Search tags using exact match? Somehow I ended up with the tag "e" somewhere in my library. I tried searching for "e" to remove it, but the search found practically every book. I then tried tag:"e", but this found (apparently) every book with the letter 'e' in some tag. I tried "^e$" (regexp), but that didn't work at all. I tried the advance option "exact phrase", with no joy. My guess is that the search system is using a 'contains' search. Is there a way to force it to use exact match? Better yet, is there a way to make search use a regexp?