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filter expression for quote (") only in the first postition?
I'm not a coder and I've played around a little trying to figure something out with no real success... what I'm after is a filter expression that would find a quote character (") only in the first position of the subject field and then exclude that post if the character were found. can anyone suggest something that would work?
had to use ^/" since the quote is a special character, I guess. the filter complained unless I used the / but that worked! simple! thanks for the suggestion!
Backslash is what you use to escape characters. So it should be ^\" to anchor a quote to the beginning of the string.
dexter wrote: Backslash is what you use to escape characters. So it should be ^\" to anchor a quote to the beginning of the string.
you are, of course, correct! I typed "/" when I had actually used "\" in the filter. thanks for that correction.