The title explains it all but I will add a little bit of context.
This is my search string in the browser
re:^[^\t]+\t[^<]
Am trying to find a note whose First field exists, and second file does not begin with <
Apparently the field separator isn’t ,;\t because none works.
I can’t use the field names because they are not constant. How do I go about it?
The separator character is \x1f. Try this expression:
re:^[^\x1f]+\x1f[^<]
Is that a single character or multiple? Just checked, it not \x1f
It’s a single character, U+001F Information Separator One.
That’s interesting. Thanks a lot.
This is definitely not in the docs, is it?
Apparently not. I had to look in the Anki source code to figure it out.
It doesn’t work on AnkiDroid.
This is an implementation detail. I don’t think it’s explicitly supported.
Searching is done by the backend so it works on mobile clients as well. This trick won’t work for notetypes that have a field excluded from search, however
It didn’t work in my testing. I don’t really care, but wanted to point it out.
Edit: re:^[^\x1f]+\x1f[^<\x1f] ensures that the second field is non-empty.
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