(Archived) How to escape non-alphanumerics in search?

[Gavin_ 1]

I need to do a search like this:

 

intitle:\-\ *

 

which uses the backslash to escape and means search for all notes that have a title starting with "- ". 

 

How can this be done?

[jefito 5,589]

Evernote search doesn't support escapes like that. I would have thought that intitle:"-"* would work, but it doesn't appear to, even though quoted arguments are allowed, according to the search grammar (http://dev.evernote.com/documentation/cloud/chapters/search_grammar.php)

[gazumped 11,643]

As long as it's at the beginning of a title,  wouldn't "notes by title" and scroll down find your note(s) if any?

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Evernote search doesn't support escapes like that. I would have thought that intitle:"-"* would work, but it doesn't appear to, even though quoted arguments are allowed, according to the search grammar (http://dev.evernote.com/documentation/cloud/chapters/search_grammar.php)

IME, searching on quoted delimiters is iffy at best.

[Gavin_ 1]

As long as it's at the beginning of a title,  wouldn't "notes by title" and scroll down find your note(s) if any?

 

Yes, this works.  And it's actually easier than search.  I use "-" as a todo marker on notes so that the stay at the top of all notebooks.  Simply sorting by title in All Notes shows all my todos.

[gazumped 11,643]

Sometimes, being simple helps..  

[anjoschu 67]

Sometimes, being simple helps..

 

It sure does. However, I wonder if the original poster originally needed the search string for a saved search.