Search comments' HTML?

Geremia · 04-24-2020, 02:12 PM

How do I search the HTML of comments?

I tried:

Code:

comments:"<p><br></p>"

, but that didn't find books that have " " in their HTML.

theducks · 04-24-2020, 03:13 PM

did you actually SEE that code in the comments?

Your search results WAS valid because you term was wrong
BR is a self closed tag. it needs the / before the >

Code:

comments:"<p><br /></p>"

The space may be optional

Geremia · 04-24-2020, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

did you actually SEE that code in the comments?

Your search results WAS valid because you term was wrong
BR is a self closed tag. it needs the / before the >

Code:

comments:"<p><br /></p>"

The space may be optional

No, that's not the issue. I have some comments dating back to Calibre 2.x, which didn't use " ".

(I could do a regexp on every book of my library, but wouldn't that change the modification date of every book?)

kovidgoyal · 04-24-2020, 11:31 PM

That's probably because it is actually just a (the markup you see via the edit metadata dialog is not an accurate representation of what is present internally as it is roundtripped through Qt's text edit widget.

BetterRed · 04-25-2020, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geremia

(... but wouldn't that change the modification date of every book?)

If you mean the caiibre Modification date I think there maybe a plugin option to undo that, pretty sure it's one of DaltonST's, maybe Audit Log ==>> Index of plugins

BR

Geremia · 04-29-2020, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

That's probably because it is actually just a (the markup you see via the edit metadata dialog is not an accurate representation of what is present internally as it is roundtripped through Qt's text edit widget.

Ah, I see. thanks

04-24-2020, 02:12 PM	#1
Geremia Addict Posts: 235 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Calibre	Search comments' HTML? How do I search the HTML of comments? I tried: Code: comments:"<p><br></p>" , but that didn't find books that have "<p><br></p>" in their HTML.

04-24-2020, 03:13 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,803 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	did you actually SEE that code in the comments? Your search results WAS valid because you term was wrong BR is a self closed tag. it needs the / before the > Code: comments:"<p><br /></p>" The space may be optional

04-24-2020, 11:31 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's probably because it is actually just a <p><br> (the markup you see via the edit metadata dialog is not an accurate representation of what is present internally as it is roundtripped through Qt's text edit widget.

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