"foo" without "vol"

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"foo" without "vol"

Postby bobkoure » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:08 am

Sometimes there are posts with the pars named in a way that NBP doesn't recognize 'em as something to put into the scratch list.
A simple solution (using find)
foo(?!.*\.vol)
finds all of foo without the string vol (assuming par volume posts say "vol" somewhere in them)
select all, then [enter] or [ctl][e] - to put into download list

then (again using find)
foo.*\.vol
select all, then [ctl][ins] - to put into scratch list

More of an issue for multi-volume stuff, of course...
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Postby Quade » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:11 am

Nice.
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Postby ozzii » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:54 am

Thanks, that will help
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