Ability to do a negative filter

[tristil]

I might be missing something. I want to filter for e.g. -#recurring

[ivan-lednev]

This is straight from Dataview docs:

Querying from #food and !#fastfood will only return pages that contain #food but does not contain #fastfood.

Source

Note that this works only on a 'per-file' basis. You can't filter out particular tasks this way, only files.

[ivan-lednev]

Fix: oops, I didn't notice you created an issue in the archiver plugin. Sorry for the confusion 😆 Please clarify where do you want this filter to work

[tristil]

No worries. This is what I would like

Where #task actually would be archived

[ivan-lednev]

This field accepts a regular expression. Try this:

^(?:(?!#recurring).)*$

Or with multiple tags:

^(?:(?!#recurring|#some-other).)*$

[tristil]

Thank you! I actually did experiment with negative lookahead but I guess I needed the approach taken here. I think I just learned something new about regexp as well. This solves my problem.