Author search help

[ownedbycats]

I'd like to find authors that have a middle initial without a period.

e.g. "Firstname A Lastname" and not "Firstname A. Lastname" or "Firstname Arggghghh Lastname"

How would I do this?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I'd like to find authors that have a middle initial without a period.

e.g. "Firstname A Lastname" and not "Firstname A. Lastname" or "Firstname Arggghghh Lastname"

How would I do this?

Quality Check has a search for authors with initials that don't meet some criteria. The criteria are set in the plugin preferences using a dropdown.

This regexp finds anything consisting of some characters, a single space, a single letter, a single space, and some characters.

^.+ \w .+$

[ownedbycats]

Both of those work and picked up a handful of authors.

Specific to Quality Check: Next time I'll probably not run it on All Books - it also picked up a bunch of company names from my collection of manuals.

Thanks