[Developers] pattern-matching syntax for =~ constraint in MQL

[David Flanagan]

Answering my own question here, it appears that using * in quotes, 
causes it to match a single word.

So the pattern I should use in my query is:

    "name~=": "\"^The *$\""

The pattern ^*$ matches strings that are single words.  The pattern * by 
itself seems to match anything.  I'm still not exactly sure what the 
matching rules are, but I can make the examples in my documentation work 
again.

	David

David Flanagan wrote:
> The * in the query below used to match a single word:
> 
> [{
>    "type" : "/music/artist",
>    "name" : null,
>    "name~=" : "^The *$"
> }]
> 
> So this query would return The Clash, but not The Mighty Mighty 
> Bosstones.  That's changed: the * now seems to match any string.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if there is any new syntax to match a single word?
> 
> 	David
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