How can I search for notes using the built-in search plugin, which supports regex, to search for notes that have no entry in specific keys within the frontmatter?

I am using templater and thus am using my frontmatter looks like this:

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aliases:

publish: false

tag:

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date:: [[2023-07-11 Tue]]

parent:: [[XYZ]]

%%

Searching for "parent:: " works fine, but I want to find notes that do not have a parent note yet. For this I tried parent:: /$ as indicated here and here, but this and other variations like parent:: /\$/ do not yield any results.

Where am i going wrong?

  • nietscape@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    If you’re using regex I’m assuming you know of utilities like Regex 101 to check your syntax.

    With JS-styled regex the entire statement is enclosed in slashes. /parent:: $/ should have the desired effect here.

    I second DataView for these kinds of tasks as the plugin revolves around YAML frontmatter. I have a utility note called “notes with cleanable metadata” that has a bunch of these DataView queries that update in real time.

    Good luck!

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      1 year ago

      /parent:: $/

      Works perfectly! I thought I could start the regex in the middle of my text query. In hindsight, that of course makes no sense. Thank you!