Cannot search for round brackets
I have a large deck where some notes contain round brackets in the text field. Now I want to systematically change those cards; so I tried to search for the character (
in my deck. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible.
When I search for deck:current (
, I get zero results. deck:current "("
will not do good either.
I have tested this on PC (version 2.1.20) and AnkiMobile (version 2.0.59) with identical (negative) results.
I have also found an old thread describing basically exactly the same problem. Unfortunately, that one got closed due to inactivity and I am not permitted to post there.
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1 Posted by lilalas on 10 Mar, 2020 11:07 PM
You would assume implementing a fix for this should take less then five years; maybe it has indeed been forgotten ;p
Support Staff 2 Posted by Damien Elmes on 11 Mar, 2020 05:24 AM
There are only so many hours in the day, so issues that affect a lot of people tend to take priority I'm afraid. One workaround you could use is to use the Find&Replace feature to replace them with something else, then search for that.
3 Posted by lilalas on 11 Mar, 2020 10:57 AM
Good thinking! I suppose this is an acceptable workaround. Albeit a bit tedious, it worked just fine in my case. Thank you for your help!
4 Posted by lilalas on 11 Mar, 2020 11:07 AM
Please let me suggest a possibly cheap way to implement a fix: Make the Search tool behave similar to the Find & Replace tool, in that there is a setting/checkbox to choose whether you want to use regular expressions or not.
Support Staff 5 Posted by Damien Elmes on 12 Mar, 2020 10:37 AM
That won't help, it's an issue with the parsing of the search terms. I'll fix it when I have a chance :-)