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Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« on: January 24, 2017, 09:19:13 am »
Basically what the title says. I'm looking to find all the artists, titles, albums, etc. that contain words starting with a lowercase letter (like Ebb and Flow) and I haven't found a viable solution yet.
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2017, 09:45:13 am »
You made me scratch my head about this one!

Coming next build:
NEW: Added the expression IsLowerCase(...) to test a string to see if it's all lowercase.

So add an expression column like:
IsLowerCase([Name])

And sort by it.
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2017, 09:49:31 am »
You can also search like this (requires the new build):
[=IsLowerCase([Name])]=1
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2017, 11:06:26 am »
Matt, you're a lifesaver! ;)

P.S. I actually didn't know numbers were considered lowercase. :P
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2017, 11:14:54 am »
Quote from: Awesome Donkey on January 24, 2017, 11:06:26 am
Matt, you're a lifesaver! ;)

Well I think we actually had zero functions that looked at the case of a string.  We're just always ignoring the case during search.

I thought about making a different type of equality for searching like {...} to mean "Match the case" but that seemed a little complicated.

The expression was a pretty safe and simple addition.
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2017, 06:36:11 am »
This should be in the build that just went public:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,109099.0.html

Let me know how it works.

Thanks.
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2017, 07:09:31 am »
Quote from: Matt on January 24, 2017, 09:45:13 am

NEW: Added the expression IsLowerCase(...) to test a string to see if it's all lowercase.


...but not if it's starting by lower case ?

Couldn't the expression IsLowerCase work like that : IsLowerCase([string, x])], x being the number of chars of the string to test. If x=0 then test all the string ?
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2017, 07:16:53 am »
Quote from: Cmely on January 25, 2017, 07:09:31 am
...but not if it's starting by lower case ?

Couldn't the expression IsLowerCase work like that : IsLowerCase([string, x])], x being the number of chars of the string to test. If x=0 then test all the string ?

What are you hoping to test?  Only the first letter or something?
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2017, 07:24:24 am »
It was an easy change, so coming next build:
Changed: Made the IsLowerCase(...) function take an optional second parameter for the number of characters to test.  That way you can test only the first letter for example.
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Re: Search expression to find words starting with lowercase letters?
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2017, 10:08:17 am »
 :o

I can say only one thing : Bravo !!!
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