Searching in comments for html-tags

Kuhnke · 05-23-2017, 02:59 PM

Hi together..

I have a strange behavior of the extended search.
I try to search in the comments data for a html tag (or part of a html tag), e.g. comments:"p>". All of the shown results have the tag, but about 20% of the books who definitly have this tag too, are not found.

When I change anything (a char, a new line, ...) in the metadata of a book which was previosly not found, the book is found at the next search.

This also happens when I use a regex expression.

Has anyone a idea?

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sorry for my bad english

kovidgoyal · 05-23-2017, 09:33 PM

While comments are displayed/edited as HTML they are not always stored internall as HTML, depending on where they originally come from. After you edit a comment using the calibre metadata editor it is always stored as HTML internally.

05-23-2017, 02:59 PM	#1
Kuhnke Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2015 Device: Kindle Voyage	Searching in comments for html-tags Hi together.. I have a strange behavior of the extended search. I try to search in the comments data for a html tag (or part of a html tag), e.g. comments:"p>". All of the shown results have the tag, but about 20% of the books who definitly have this tag too, are not found. When I change anything (a char, a new line, ...) in the metadata of a book which was previosly not found, the book is found at the next search. This also happens when I use a regex expression. Has anyone a idea? -- sorry for my bad english

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05-23-2017, 09:33 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	While comments are displayed/edited as HTML they are not always stored internall as HTML, depending on where they originally come from. After you edit a comment using the calibre metadata editor it is always stored as HTML internally.