[mythtv] Regular expressions for program matching
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Mon Nov 3 19:20:45 EST 2003
> I agree with Chris that this really only needs a
> "=" changed to "like" so that titles without wildcards would
> work as they do now but "%Junkyard%" would match Junkyard Wars
> and Junkyard Mega-Wars. More would need to be done to support
> matching keywords in the subtitles and descriptions.
Of course, this still doesn't hit what the subject thread talks about..
% isn't a regular expression match - it's just mysql's fast-match system
where % matches 0 or more characters and _ matches any one character.
mythweb's search uses % (replaces any whitespace with a %) because it's
fast and easy, and my opinion is that this similar functionality would
be plenty for recording things via myth, and regex would probably just
be a lot more work.
As for the old mythweb's scheduled-recordings page, I'm happy to write
up a new one, though I'll name it properly as recording-schedules (since
that's what it is).. once we get some special recording types set up..
or if I get bored after I commit the pile of patches that have been sent
to me over the past few weeks (server problems have kept me from doing
much coding while at home).
-Chris
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