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Old 06-22-2025, 05:19 PM   #1
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LitRPG Novels Question/Suggestion
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ERROR: Empty search expression: Cannot search for '[' as it contains only punctuation and spaces.

For LitRPG novels they tend to have system descriptions between [ and ] but I can't use the search bar to find them that way as of right now or at least that I know of. Anyone got a solution? Or a plugin?
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Old 06-22-2025, 05:27 PM   #2
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Preferably the next Calibre update has an exception and makes it so you can search for [ or ]. Or would that bother anyone else?
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calibre, version 8.5.0
ERROR: Empty search expression: Cannot search for '[' as it contains only punctuation and spaces.

For LitRPG novels they tend to have system descriptions between [ and ] but I can't use the search bar to find them that way as of right now or at least that I know of. Anyone got a solution? Or a plugin?
Checking the fts5 documentation, it seems the [ is considered a separator and not searchable.
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Switch to regex mode and search for

\[


instead.
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