PVR search term suggestions

Dave Liquorice allsorts at howhill.com
Fri Dec 12 14:39:34 PST 2014


>> You'll find that "^vent$" will only find the item you want not the 
>> others, such as advent, Coventry etc.
> 
> Alan,
> 
> Thanks, filed for future reference. I messed around with some wildcard 
> options last night with no success. Is there a name for the format of 
> those characters in a search string?

They are regular expression (regex) pattern matching markers. ^ matches from 
the start of the string being tested, $ from the end. So this means only the 
string vent will match.

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Cheers
Dave.





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