Regular expressions in normal search

mike the leg · 08-25-2022, 01:06 PM

Anyone know how I can just search the library for Authors or book titles containing special characters like brackets, comma or backslash

I know how to use the regular expressions in search and replace, but regular expressions don't seem to work in the normal search.

chaley · 08-25-2022, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by mike the leg

Anyone know how I can just search the library for Authors or book titles containing special characters like brackets, comma or backslash

I know how to use the regular expressions in search and replace, but regular expressions don't seem to work in the normal search.

See the manual for the calibre search interface. You will see two solutions: regular expression and character variant searches.

mike the leg · 08-31-2022, 02:09 PM

Yep, that does it.
Thanks
Mike

08-25-2022, 01:06 PM	#1
mike the leg Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kindle	Regular expressions in normal search Anyone know how I can just search the library for Authors or book titles containing special characters like brackets, comma or backslash I know how to use the regular expressions in search and replace, but regular expressions don't seem to work in the normal search.

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08-31-2022, 02:09 PM	#3
mike the leg Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kindle	Yep, that does it. Thanks Mike

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