Channel filter help matching empty channel/network

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I setup separate conversion tasks for SD and HD recordings.
For my OTA broadcasts, when channel info is present, the HD channel is the primary and the secondary channels are SD. e.g. KxDT is HD, and KxDT2, KxDT3, etc. are all SD.

My problem is for recordings that, for whatever reason, don’t have channel info in them, I cannot include a match for a null value or the empty string (whatever MCEBuddy interprets for that).

If I wanted to include the empty/missing channel info recordings in the conversion task as if it were an HD recording, I don’t know the syntax to include it in my channel/network matching setting.

I currently have: “*DT;~*DT2;~*DT3;~*DT4;~*DT5;”

How do I represent either matching or not matching the empty string?
Is the only way via a regex? And can I mix and match regexes and the normal syntax? e.g. “regex:^$;*DT;~*DT2;~*DT3;~*DT4;~*DT5;”

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This isn’t possible currently but we’ve added this feature to todays 2.6.5 beta build.

You will need to use a regex: pattern match, for example to match for an empty string use regex:^$ or you can make more complex regex expressions as well. Simple wildcards will not be able to match empty strings.

Try it out let us know how it goes.

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How would I use a regex with my examples?
Is each term separated by ; considered independently?

For example, “regex:^$;*DT;~*DT2;~*DT3”
or do I need to figure out the whole thing as a single regex?

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Regex is processed as a single expression

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You can try to use the AI Forum helper bot on the top bar to help you create a custom regex easily. :hugs:

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For example when asked to create a regex that matches a string if it’s empty or contains DT but not if it contains DT2, DT3, DT4 or DT5 and it returned:

^$|DT(?!2|3|4|5)

So you can use regex:^$|DT(?!2|3|4|5)

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