Note that the contains operator expects a list field. In a list field your
entries would be formed like:
[[Nicholas Vaughn]] [[Katherine Vaughn]]
A list field like this has advantages, since it can be easily converted
into a title list for use in filters.
What TiddlyWiki was "seeing" would have been more like:
[[Nicholas]] [[Vaughn,]] [[Katherine]] [[Vaughn]]
which is why "Nicholas" matched, but nothing else.
If you want to continue using a comma separated list, probably searching
the field with the regexp operator would work.
On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 8:22:37 PM UTC-8 Mooglegirl wrote:
> I have a tiddler with a field called "characters" that contains a
> comma-separated list of characters relevant to the story written in the
> tiddler. In this case, the field value is "Nicholas Vaughn, Katherine
> Vaughn". I'm trying to filter on all tiddlers with the name "Nicholas
> Vaughn" somewhere in the character field. However, including the space in
> the "contains" filter's value causes it to break.
>
> This works:
> [contains:characters[Nicholas]]
>
> This returns no results:
> [contains:characters[Nicholas Vaughn]]
>
> Even just adding the space ("Nicholas ") causes the results to immediately
> go blank. I've tried surrounding the value with quotes with no success. Is
> this a bug, or is there something else I need to do?
>
> (For context, I need it to be the full name because I'll be using this in
> a macro that passes in the full name taken from the character tiddler's
> title.)
>
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