Templates: various questions not worth their own thread

[Katja_hbg]

Originally Posted by Katja_hbg

{#author_book_count:'first_matching_cmp(1,$,'books ','book')'}

Solved: I will use the numeric value of author_book_count.
Still strange what happened but the following works well:
{#abc_numeric:'first_matching_cmp(1,$,'books','boo k')'}

[ownedbycats]

How do I use a re or list_re on a period? It's regex for a single character.

[un_pogaz]

\.

escape the dot with a slash.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by un_pogaz

\.

escape the dot with a slash.

thanks