Search tags using exact match?

chaley · 01-21-2010, 11:39 AM

Somehow I ended up with the tag "e" somewhere in my library. I tried searching for "e" to remove it, but the search found practically every book. I then tried tag:"e", but this found (apparently) every book with the letter 'e' in some tag. I tried "^e$" (regexp), but that didn't work at all. I tried the advance option "exact phrase", with no joy.

My guess is that the search system is using a 'contains' search. Is there a way to force it to use exact match? Better yet, is there a way to make search use a regexp?

kovidgoyal · 01-21-2010, 11:40 AM

No, there isn't just use the tag editor in the edit meta information dialog to find and remove the tag.

Starson17 · 01-21-2010, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by readerfromthere

My guess is that the search system is using a 'contains' search. Is there a way to force it to use exact match? Better yet, is there a way to make search use a regexp?

As Kovid said, there's no way to do this inside calibre (other than using the tag editor). However, both are possible with SQL commands if you open metadata.db in an SQL editor like SQLiteSpy.

chaley · 01-21-2010, 01:16 PM

Two excellent suggestions. In fact, I feel silly not having thought of using the tag editor.

01-21-2010, 11:39 AM	#1
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,734 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Search tags using exact match? Somehow I ended up with the tag "e" somewhere in my library. I tried searching for "e" to remove it, but the search found practically every book. I then tried tag:"e", but this found (apparently) every book with the letter 'e' in some tag. I tried "^e$" (regexp), but that didn't work at all. I tried the advance option "exact phrase", with no joy. My guess is that the search system is using a 'contains' search. Is there a way to force it to use exact match? Better yet, is there a way to make search use a regexp?

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01-21-2010, 11:40 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, there isn't just use the tag editor in the edit meta information dialog to find and remove the tag.

01-21-2010, 01:16 PM	#4
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,734 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Two excellent suggestions. In fact, I feel silly not having thought of using the tag editor.