How to return inline fields which contain text in a linklink

[grefft]

I have inline fields in the following format:

field1:: [[link1]], [[link2]]
field2:: #tag
field3::  some_text

I am attempting to pull a dataview to return files which have field2 = "[[link1]]" but I can’t get it to work.

Things I have tried

TABLE field1 FROM ""
WHERE contains(field1, "link1")

TABLE field1 FROM ""
WHERE field1 = "[[link1]]"

TABLE field1 FROM ""
WHERE regexmatch("link1", field1)

I can get this to work without issue with field2 and field3. Is it failing because field1 is a link?

(edits for clarity that these are “inline fields”

[Moonbase59]

[[link1]], [[link2]] is invalid YAML.

You could—in theory—use [[[link1]], [[link2]]] (check) but that looks complicated and for some odd reason is rejected by Obsidian as being invalid.

EDIT: That was wrong, I made a type there, it is accepted by Obsidian.

[grefft]

Thanks. Maybe I’m missing something, but these are inline fields within the body of the file, not in the YAML front-matter as described here

[Moonbase59]

Ah ok. I don’t use the so-called inline fields because they make typography look wrong and are complicated to handle and non-standard. So I can’t tell you if that could work. I suppose not, because I assume those are also handled by a YAML parser.

One reason for that syntax being so hard to use (with YAML, while being easy for humans) is that the “wikilinks” appear to a YAML parser as an “array within an array”.

[Moonbase59]

Let me do some more tests. You only want to find text that could be in the whole field1, right?

It would appear if you make the links a YAML str type, like in

field1: "[[link1]], [[link2]]"

you can do a Dataview search without sacrificing the wikilinks:

table field1 from ""
where contains(field1, "[[link1]]")

produces

Doesn’t look good, but at least works …

[grefft]

yes. the goal is to be able to query for files which have either [[link1]] or [[link2]] associated with field1.

Your comment about YAML parsing, led me to try enclosing the entire line in double-quotes. Which did work. However, it’s odd to read the document that way so I’m hoping there’s a better option

[Moonbase59]

Two people, same idea

[grefft]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, appreciate it.

[Moonbase59]

I think I found a way. Would you like to try?

# Test Dataview Inline Links

field1:: [[link1]], [[link2]]

field2:: #testtag

field3:: a, b

`=this.field1`

`=this.field3`

Does _not_ work:

```dataview
table field1 from ""
where contains(field1, "[[link1]]")
```

**Works:**

```dataview
table field1 from ""
where contains(field1, [[link1]])
```

Be warned that if anything else is on the links line, like an external link

field1:: [[link1]], [[link2]], [External](https://example.com/)

or anything else

field1:: [[link1]], [[link2]], abc

the whole construct breaks and the top dataview starts working, while the lower one fails. So quite a shaky solution …

[seddiejay]

Struggling with this as well. Appreciate these examples, but I can’t get either of these approaches to work for me (query returned 0 results) when my field just has one value … eg. themes:: [[Device Quality]] … 0 results

I tried faking making a list … themes:: [[Device Quality]], dummy… and it works using either contains(themes, "[[Device Quality]]") or contains(themes, "Device Quality") or contains(themes, this.file.name)

… but NOT for the link directly as in contains(themes, [[Device Quality]]).

The more I play around, I seem to be stumped on the singular item (non-list) field value when it is a link specifically.