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Originally Posted by kiwidude
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Do note that this regexp will find books with any author having a name containing more than one comma. It will not find books with multiple authors, each containing a comma. For example, it will find "Blogs, PhD, Joe" but it will not find "Blogs, Joe & Sneeze, Sam". Depending on what you are doing, this distinction will matter.
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Originally Posted by unboggling
I wonder why none of my regex lists show the tilde. What specifically does it mean?
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It tells search that what follows is a regular expression. It is similar to the "=" that tells search that what follows must be a complete match, and the period that tells search that what follows is a hierarchical match.