Search for [[]]

#1

Hello all,

I have created a problem for myself and need to fix it. A macro I created has created some fields that have [[]] as a value and nothing else. How might I search on these and delete them? I think that this might be able to be done with regexp, but I’m not familiar enough to know for sure. Any advice is most welcome and appreciated.

#2

If that happened to me, I’d do the following:

  1. Make a backup.
  2. MAKE A BACKUP.
  3. Load the html file in a text editor.
  4. Search for <script class="tiddlywiki-tiddler-store
      – your tiddlers are stored in that <script> element
  5. Find the relevant entries and change "[[]]" to ""
  6. Save & test.

Good luck!

#3

Put the following in a tiddler:

<$vars brackets="[[]]">
<$list filter="[all[tiddlers]search:-text<brackets>]"><$link/></$list>

Notes:

  • The $vars is needed since you can’t directly use square brackets as a literal operand value in filter syntax, but you can use a <variable> reference that contains the square brackets.
  • The -text flag in the search operator means “search all fields EXCEPT the text field”

enjoy,
-e

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#4

Thanks to you both. I ended up using Eric’s solution and it worked fine.

I’m normally pretty good at doing backups, but brain farted in this case.