player.xml broken

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Mon May 12 08:36:13 PDT 2014


On 12/05/2014 15:36, Don Grunbaum wrote:
>> Also, you may need the full name including the series number for an
>> exact match ("^Heresy: Series 7$") or perhaps just use the colon
>> separator to constrain the match ("^Genius:")
>
> My experience suggests that ^Genius$ does not work, but Genius (without
> the ^ and $) will work ok, although it could pick up false positives. I
> think the colon is what "upsets" the match.
>
> Does anyone else find the same?

No metacharacters effectively means perform a substring match, which 
would always work so long as "Genius" is somewhere in the programme 
name.  "^Genius:" works if the programme name begins with "Genius:", 
which it does in this case.  That takes advantage of the fact that a 
colon is used as a separator in the metadata and thus no need to enter 
series number.  Full name with series number is always best for exact 
match.  And of course you must be searching the programme name, which is 
the default behaviour.  "^Genius:" works fine here.  If it doesn't work 
for you, something else is wrong.








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