Why are you trying to do this ? and why aren't you just searching on
your authorid and relative item id ?

On Jun 26, 6:32 pm, Josh Cummings <[email protected]> wrote:
> In our dataset, each record has a text attribute that represents a
> list of name-value pairs.  It is structured like this:
>
> ~~name1~value1~~name2~value2~~...nameN~valueN~~
>
> The single-tilde is a delimiter between the name and value, and the
> double-tilde is a delimiter between each pair.
>
> We would like a query to return the records that possess the name-
> value pair M within this attribute.  I thought that a query like this
> would work:
>
> bq=[item type:...] [pairs:~~nameM~valueM~~] ...
>
> However, that returns no results.
>
> I have also tried [pairs:*~~nameM~valueM~~*] and several others.
>
> As a temporary solution, I do [pairs:nameM*valueM], and then I filter
> out the results myself; however, it doesn't seem to guarantee that I
> will be able to acquire all records that have name-value pair M in the
> attribute 'pairs'.
>
> Is there a way to match by a substring of an attribute value? I could
> easily choose an alphabetic delimiter, if it comes down to "~" being
> some sort of reserved character.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
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