Underscores matching anything???!!!

wgrillo · 07-12-2023, 02:38 PM

Hello, everybuddy!
I sometimes create tags that look like _MASTER or _WHATEVER, so that then I can easily search for all the books with that tag by searching for "_MA" or "_MASTER". In my last version (5.44) this worked like a charm. I've just updated to 6.22 and now "_MASTER" will also match a book called "Masters of Doom" (which doesn't have the _MASTER tag nor an underscore anywhere. And "_WHAT" will also match any book with "what" in the title.
How can I change this?
Thanks in advance:
Wences

chaley · 07-12-2023, 03:53 PM

See the calibre manual The search interface, and in particular the difference between "‘Contains’ searches" and "‘Character variant’ searches"

wgrillo · 07-13-2023, 05:17 AM

Yes, that did it. It seems that the underscore "_" is considered a punctuation mark.
It's a shame that ignoring diacritics and ignoring punctuation are grouped together... But I can live with that.
Thanks, Chaley!

07-12-2023, 02:38 PM	#1
wgrillo Very experienced beginner Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2023 Location: Hungary Device: none	Underscores matching anything???!!! Hello, everybuddy! I sometimes create tags that look like _MASTER or _WHATEVER, so that then I can easily search for all the books with that tag by searching for "_MA" or "_MASTER". In my last version (5.44) this worked like a charm. I've just updated to 6.22 and now "_MASTER" will also match a book called "Masters of Doom" (which doesn't have the _MASTER tag nor an underscore anywhere. And "_WHAT" will also match any book with "what" in the title. How can I change this? Thanks in advance: Wences

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07-12-2023, 03:53 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,445 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	See the calibre manual The search interface, and in particular the difference between "‘Contains’ searches" and "‘Character variant’ searches"

07-13-2023, 05:17 AM	#3
wgrillo Very experienced beginner Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2023 Location: Hungary Device: none	Yes, that did it. It seems that the underscore "_" is considered a punctuation mark. It's a shame that ignoring diacritics and ignoring punctuation are grouped together... But I can live with that. Thanks, Chaley!

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