Hey Mat,

Just wanted to bring to your attention Tobias' excellent *split* plugin:

https://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#split

which might be of interest!

On Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 3:14:27 PM UTC-5, Mat wrote:
>
> Thanks for reply, Mark!
>
> You seem to want to look at something like "[[Foo]] Bar Baz" as a whole 
>> string. I'm not sure how to even set that up experimentally, because TW 
>> constantly wants to turn it into a title list, with each item viewed as a 
>> title.
>>
>
> I'd think all the cases where you're forced to use the enlist filter 
> operator would mean that if you don't use it, then the arg is seen as one 
> string. No?
>  
> But, regardless, doesn't the regexp:field[] filter op always interpret 
> any field content as one string because regexp:tags[oo ba] would show 
> positive for the tags "foo bar". I.e AFAICT, the space character is just a 
> character to regexp, not a separator. 
>
>
>
> As far as a regular expression that just finds "Foo" (assuming a standard 
>> title list) then regexp[^Foo$] should work.
>>
>
> If there is anything more in the field, such as is common the tags field, 
> then that syntax would give a false negative.
>
> The actual use case for my question is the toggle-in-field 
> <http://toggle-in-field.tiddlyspot.com/> plugin. I have thus far used 
> regexp[\b$item$\b] like so 
>
> <$list filter="[[$tiddler$]has[$field$]regexp:$field$[\b$item$\b]]">
>
> This is actually pretty good but it gives a false positive in a TW 
> context(!) where a title Foo must not be confused with a title [[Foo bar]]. 
> There needs to be some condition that a prefixing [[ also requires a 
> suffixing ]] but I'm not sure how to deal with bracket characters in a 
> filter and if it is at all possible.
>
> Thanks for your input, Mark!
>
> <:-)
>

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