filter expression for quote (") only in the first postition?

[tgeery]

I'm not a coder and I've played around a little trying to figure something out with no real success... what I'm after is a filter expression that would find a quote character (") only in the first position of the subject field and then exclude that post if the character were found. can anyone suggest something that would work?

[richy99]

the ^ is the regex for begins with

so might try ^"

[tgeery]

I'll give that a try. thanks.

[tgeery]

had to use ^/" since the quote is a special character, I guess. the filter complained unless I used the / but that worked! simple! thanks for the suggestion!

[dexter]

Backslash is what you use to escape characters. So it should be ^\" to anchor a quote to the beginning of the string.

[tgeery]

Backslash is what you use to escape characters. So it should be ^\" to anchor a quote to the beginning of the string.

you are, of course, correct! I typed "/" when I had actually used "\" in the filter. thanks for that correction.