global search accepts regex

[alexn-s]

Describe the solution you'd like
often i want to exclude something from the search or see everything except ....

ideas

• either a second search bar for excluding keywords/ text
• support for regex
• NOT / ! keyword to negate the search

[RafaelGB]

Could be a subtask of #73

When the v8 of react-table will be available, we need to improve the search input yep :)
thanks for your idea

[alexn-s]

you are right. had not seen that feature.

anyway awesome work with your extension.
it really is the most important one for me since i found it to quickly filter through my multiple thousand notes.
i really appreciate it 💖

[RafaelGB]

The idea will be support regex

import { FilterFn, Row } from "@tanstack/react-table"
import { RowDataType } from "cdm/FolderModel"
import { LocalSettings } from "cdm/SettingsModel";
import { InputType } from "helpers/Constants";
import { Literal } from "obsidian-dataview";
import { DataviewService } from "services/DataviewService";

export const globalDatabaseFilterFn: (ddbbConfig: LocalSettings) => FilterFn<RowDataType> = (ddbbConfig: LocalSettings) => (
    row: Row<RowDataType>,
    columnId: string,
    filterValue: string
) => {
    const value = row.getValue<Literal>(columnId);
    if (value === undefined) {
        return false;
    }
    const sanitized = DataviewService.parseLiteral(value, InputType.MARKDOWN, ddbbConfig, true).toString().toLowerCase();
    filterValue = filterValue.toLowerCase();
    return sanitized.includes(filterValue) || searchRegex(sanitized, filterValue);
}

function searchRegex(sanitized: string, filterValue: string): boolean {
    try {
        const regex = new RegExp(filterValue);
        return regex.test(sanitized);
    } catch (e) {
        return false;
    }
}