Enhancement - allow character match in rules

[Robin]

Would like to have the option for character match in rules. Being able to associate a rule to a specific character would be helpful. For example, if a book title contains a "(" in it, this would indicate that there is series info in the title and may need editing. Being able to associate a rule for column coloring would save time from searching out the titles, and keep track if they should change. It requires less effort than a search and does not require the user to "remember" to search. This could also go for other areas requiring details on non-regular-expression data.

An additional "contains" or "does not contain" in the drop down for creating rules would be great. Not sure if this is possible, but really would like it.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

I'm not sure what you are asking for. A character is justa string of
length one. WHat's preventing you from using the existing contains rule?

 status invalid

[Robin (robin-ellwood)]

I probably haven't figured out the right way to set the rule, but I wanted
to be able to say if the title column contains a

"(" then to color it. The following attachment shows the results of this
request.

I know that if I do a proper search then it's possible, I even have a VL
set for this, but I wanted something more passive that doesn't require me
to set up the VL, or do a specific search.

This made me believe that I needed to enter something else. I did enter
"is" but it didn't work on a test column. I am sure there is no way of
doing this because it would already been there if it was.

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I'm not sure what you are asking for. A character is justa string of
> length one. WHat's preventing you from using the existing contains rule?
>
> status invalid
>
> ** Changed in: calibre
> Status: New => Invalid
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> Title:
> Enhancement - allow character match in rules
>
> Status in calibre:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Would like to have the option for character match in rules. Being
> able to associate a rule to a specific character would be helpful.
> For example, if a book title contains a "(" in it, this would indicate
> that there is series info in the title and may need editing. Being
> able to associate a rule for column coloring would save time from
> searching out the titles, and keep track if they should change. It
> requires less effort than a search and does not require the user to
> "remember" to search. This could also go for other areas requiring
> details on non-regular-expression data.
>
> An additional "contains" or "does not contain" in the drop down for
> creating rules would be great. Not sure if this is possible, but
> really would like it.
>
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[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

The correct regular expression syntax to match a bracket is [(]

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased