[Feature Request] Support Content Search with Regex

Pedchenia · April 17, 2025

Thanks for the amazing software!

While conducting preliminary screening, I noticed potential areas for enhancement:

1. Implementing regex in pdf content search
(In my case, i must go through GSEA to find out the GSExxx)

2. Take the last search as the default input when opening another pdf

v4u6h4n · 2025-11-25T23:25:37+00:00

I would love to see regex in content search as well (in the actual item view), even just something as simple as `first|second|third` would really cut down time when I am really just needing to cite very specific content in an item.

iagogv · 2025-11-26T09:27:44+00:00

(Duplicate)
Although I support this, meaning adding a regex checkbox to the fast search input field for pdf (Ctrl+F), actually regex is supported to search through indexed pdf's by means of Advanced search, see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/414784/#Comment_414784. However, I do not know if there is way to search regex in a single document using it.

But we need (sorry) Zotero needs regular expressions with much more generality:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/117314/regex-on-advanced-search#latest
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/125400/fr-allow-regular-expressions-for-tag-filtering#latest