```
<$list
filter="[<currentTiddler>indexes[]search:title:literal[Vegas]sort[]]"
variable=item>
```
Thanks for replying. I'll note that other forum for future questions.
But it seems your code snippet is not working with the variable/field in
there. It works fine when I put some static text there, though, as seen in
my line above.
On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 9:34:47 PM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 6:04:21 PM UTC-7 David wrote:
> ```
> <$list filter="[all[current]indexes[]contains<!!searchText>sort[]]"
> variable=item>
> ```
>
> `contains<!!searchText>>` is incorrect for two reasons:
>
> * The field reference `!!searchText` should enclosed with curly braces:
> `{!!searchText}`, not angle brackets. Remember: the delimiters around
> filter operands correspond to the type of operand: square brackets are for
> literal text, angle brackets are for variable names, curly braces are for
> tiddler field references.
> * The `contains` operator is used to search within items of a list field.
> To search the items in the current filter input, use the `search:title`
> operator. Note that, although the input items are actually indexes, for
> the purposes of the `search` operator, they are handled as a list of
> "titles".
> * Also note that, while `all[current]` is valid usage here, you could use
> `<currentTiddler>` instead. There's no semantic difference, but
> `<currentTiddler>` is *slightly* more efficient than `all[current]`, since
> it doesn't have to parse the "current" operand to retrieve the tiddler
> title.
>
> Thus, your filter should be:
> ```
> <$list
> filter="[<currentTiddler>indexes[]search:title:literal{!!searchText}sort[]]"
> variable=item>
> ```
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
> P.S. I recommend visiting https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/ for a more active
> group in which to ask questions.
>
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