03-15-2017, 03:13 PM | #1 |
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Regex in search problems (NOT Search&Replace; the search bar)
I'm having real trouble getting regex search in the search bar to work, especially within the identifiers field. (I don't know if it's a Python thing, but multi-valued fields seem to be getting treated... oddly.)
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish, in case there's an easier way. What I want the search to yield are rows that have an odid identifier that is not an ak/prime or ak/unlimited identifier. Here are three (made up) identifiers records: Code:
isbn:9781611099690, odid:B00AESRRQS@ak/prime&B00AESRRQS@ak/unlimited isbn:9781439147993, amazon:143914799X, goodreads:6933152, google:ibWojDN848kC, odid:346656@sdcl.overdrive.com&346656@sfpl.overdrive.com isbn:9781439147993, odid:346656@sdcl.overdrive.com&346656@sfpl.overdrive.com&B00AESRRQS@ak/unlimited The regex odid:.*@(?!(ak\/u|ak\/p)) does what I expect in a tester, but I can't get it to work in Calibre. ETA: I've tried odid:.*@(?!(ak\/u|ak\/p)) ~odid:.*@(?!(ak\/u|ak\/p)) "~odid:.*@(?!(ak\/u|ak\/p))" identifiers:"~odid:.*@(?!(ak\/u|ak\/p))" and none of them yield results. Thanks. Last edited by lairdb; 03-15-2017 at 03:25 PM. |
03-15-2017, 03:45 PM | #2 |
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the field name is identifiers:
You are working with a (sub) field value |
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03-15-2017, 05:05 PM | #3 |
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This should work:
Code:
identifiers:"=odid:~@(?!ak/(unlimited|prime))" |
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("Your search - subfield site:calibre-ebook.com - did not match any documents.") Quote:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui...arch-interface does not have anything about subfields, and the passing mention of the equals sign is incomplete and possibly inconsistent. https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/regexp.html has a huge explanation of how regexes work -- and nothing at all about how to use them in the search bar, which is substantially different from the S&R usage. Thanks. |
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