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authorMax Kellermann <max@musicpd.org>2018-11-07 00:28:15 +0100
committerMax Kellermann <max@musicpd.org>2018-11-11 12:55:35 +0100
commit72184dccfcdf697b0c74ac5dfc1b0e7a7cd114bb (patch)
tree97f7370c19e14dd90954e63dab2cad7574d05ecb /doc/protocol.rst
parentfee75dc766995d9946af03b40861f19412b5edd9 (diff)
song/StringFilter: support regular expressions with "=~" and "!~"
This feature requires `libpcre`.
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@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ of:
and are case-sensitive; the `search`
commands specify a sub string and ignore case.
+- ``(TAG =~ 'VALUE')`` and ``(TAG !~ 'VALUE')`` use a Perl-compatible
+ regular expression instead of doing a simple string comparison.
+ (This feature is only available if :program:`MPD` was compiled with
+ :file:`libpcre`)
+
- ``(file == 'VALUE')``: match the full song URI
(relative to the music directory).