Re: [Gramps-users] Custom filter on Places using regular expressions

[Nick H. <nic...@ho...>]

On 02/04/13 19:57, b4m wrote:
> ^$ in the Filter sidebar (regular expressions checked) does seem to 
> return rows with no postcode, but it also returns some rows which have 
> a postcode, so I'm not quite sure what is going on there.

You may have found a bug here.  Please give an example.  It works for 
me, except for empty locations.


> NULL and ISNULL returns nothing.

All location fields are initialised to empty strings.  NULL and ISNULL 
have no special meaning - they will just match as text.


>
> I have raised feature request 6599

It should be quite easy to add an option for regular expressions.

Nick.

>
>
> On 2 April 2013 14:21, Nick Hall <nic...@ho... 
> <mailto:nic...@ho...>> wrote:
>
>     The "use regular expressions" flag refers to the fields in the
>     sidebar.
>
>     The "Places matching parameters" (HasPlace) filter does not use
>     regular expressions.  You could submit a feature request asking
>     for this.
>
>     Nick.
>
>
>
>     On 01/04/13 14:11, b4m wrote:
>>     I am trying to make a custom filter which will return all Places
>>     where the Zip/Postal code field is empty. I have tried setting up
>>     a custom filter with Places matching parameters Zip/Postal Code:
>>     ^$ and setting the Use regular expressions flag on, but no
>>     results are returned. Any clues, please?
>>
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