[Developers] Multiple Wildcards in MQL Query

[John Giannandrea]

Rob Warren wrote:
> I am trying to write a single query that returns all names that  
> begin with a number for a given type (e.g. for "type" : "/base/ 
> bioventurist/science_or_technology_company", I want freebase to  
> return 3M, 454 Life Sciences, 23andme etc.).

in general MQL doesnt yet support 'OR' or full regular expressions.
ideally you should be able to do this with something like the  
following, but it doesnt currently work.
I have filed a feature request for MQL to support this.  MQL-468

[
   {
     "a:name" : {
       "a:value~=" : "^2*",
       "b:value~=" : "^3*",
	...
       "lang" : "/lang/en"
     },
     "limit" : 5,
     "name" : null,
     "type" : "/base/bioventurist/science_or_technology_company"
   }
]


-jg

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