agwilson wrote:
> Relatively new to SMW here... but I'm using an inline <ask> query to retrieve
> all pages that contain an attribute beginning with a specific letter.
That feature isn't available. The :=* syntax in SMW search that
controls what is shown isn't a subset of globbing or regular
expressions. The underlying SQL attribute storage can support
WHERE attribute_title LIKE 'M%'
but the query parsing doesn't do this.
The closest you can get in SMW 0.7 is to use the comparator operators on
an attribute. The help gives the example of
[[Category:Actor]] [[height:=>6 ft]] [[height:=<7 ft]]
But (surprisingly?), this works even for attributes of type string, so I
think this will be close to what you want:
[[TermName:=>M]] [[TermName:=<N]]
Note that string comparison behavior (case sensitivity, collation,
comparison of strings of different length, etc.) is database-specific.
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