custom search for authors with initials

[sherri0629]

I'm trying to do a custom search for some authors with initials.

I tried reading through the Regular Expressions in the documentation to figure it out but now my brain just hurts....

This one "A.E. Smith" is my preferred format so I'm trying to look for any that aren't like this so I can correct them. It's easy to miss some when you import or edit a lot at once.

So any of these are hopefully in my search (or searches):
A. E. Smith
AE Smith
A E Smith

I list all of my authors and author_sort as "fn ln" so there are no commas involved.

Is this possible? Thanks for any help!

[Terisa de morgan]

The plugin "Quality Check" has an option to verify "Authors with Initial", I think it validates just what you want. The attached picture is in Spanish but, as you see, you can define what format you want.

[sherri0629]

thank you...this is perfect