Hi, I'm looking at the Help, but I see a couple of differences between helpfile/examples and what seems to really "work" with the program.
Wildcards / Regular Expressions are not what I am typically used to. For example, * character..
In the helpfile, it lists the example like
[genre]=[alt*
"find genres starting with alt.."
This doesn't work.
If I try to create a smartlist to sort for artists that start with the letter 'A' or 'a' I try:
[artist]=[a*
and the smartlist is empty..but if I back the cursor up one time so it looks like this:
[artist]=[a
the smartlist is populated by all artists that start with the letter 'a' or 'A'
That's just a discrepancy betwen the helpfile and how the program behaves -- posting it for informational purposes.
I do have a real question: does MC smartlist syntax support the 'not' operator. typically ! or !=.
For example if I want to create a smartlist of all artists that don't start with 'a', I would assume it might be like this:
[artist] != [a
..but this doesn't work.
Is there a way to do this?
Furthermore, what if I want to create a smartlist of all artists that don't start with 0-9 or a-z (e.g. they start with special characters like ! or $)
I could try the following:
-[artist]=[a" or -[artist]=[b"
but this doesn't work, and it is really tedious. Is there an easier way that actually works?