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 Author: sonofagunk View Messages Posted By sonofagunk
 Posted: Jan 15, 2022 16:18
 Subject: "wanted list" search "-pattern" not working
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sonofagunk (100)

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I have a bunch of wanted lists, and I was trying to get all of the items on this
list that do NOT have patterns on them, so I tried:
-pattern
but it returns everything. It seems that the negation search will only work
in combo with something else. Anyone know a work around? Cant do:
x -pattern
since I was thinking most items have 1x2 or 3x2 in them, but that is not long
enough.

Thanks
 Author: hpoort View Messages Posted By hpoort
 Posted: Jan 16, 2022 02:17
 Subject: Re: "wanted list" search "-pattern" not working
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In Help, sonofagunk writes:
  I have a bunch of wanted lists, and I was trying to get all of the items on this
list that do NOT have patterns on them, so I tried:
-pattern
but it returns everything. It seems that the negation search will only work
in combo with something else. Anyone know a work around? Cant do:
x -pattern
since I was thinking most items have 1x2 or 3x2 in them, but that is not long
enough.

Thanks

Only workarounds I can think of are:
- select the parts WITH pattern and move those to a different wanted list; but
if you have may lists that would be cumbersome
- copy the wanted lists to a spreadsheet and filter off site
 Author: sonofagunk View Messages Posted By sonofagunk
 Posted: Jan 16, 2022 18:22
 Subject: Re: "wanted list" search "-pattern" not working
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In Help, hpoort writes:
  In Help, sonofagunk writes:
  I have a bunch of wanted lists, and I was trying to get all of the items on this
list that do NOT have patterns on them, so I tried:
-pattern
but it returns everything. It seems that the negation search will only work
in combo with something else. Anyone know a work around? Cant do:
x -pattern
since I was thinking most items have 1x2 or 3x2 in them, but that is not long
enough.

Thanks

Only workarounds I can think of are:
- select the parts WITH pattern and move those to a different wanted list; but
if you have may lists that would be cumbersome
- copy the wanted lists to a spreadsheet and filter off site

yea, that is what I have been doing. Basically, I copy all of my want lists
to one, delete the "pattern", and then search for that. Just a lot of work

thanks