Aha, switching to regexp:characters did the trick! Thanks folks.
On Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 11:03:03 PM UTC-6 Mark S. wrote:
> 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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