How to Search my vault for all notes which a) contain a property which includes “string” AND, B) whose property that includes string has a value that includes “OtherString”?

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What I’m trying to do

I am trying to use Obsidian Search to find all notes that meeting the following criteria:

  1. has a property whose key contains “string”; and, 2. has a value that contains “OtherString” within a property that contains “String”

In other words, if I have the following notes with the following properties in my vault:

[[Note A]]
—-
String: OtherString
—-

[[Note B]]
—-
String: null
—-

[[Note C]]
—-
BigString: OtherString
—-

[[Note D]
—-
BigString: OtherStringSmall
—-

[[Note E]]
—-
Sting: OtherString
—-

Then I’d want the search to return only:

  • [[Note A]]
  • [[Note C]]
  • [[Note D]]

Things I have tried

I searched the forums, obsidian.help.md, and reddit.com/r/obsidianmd for “properties regular expression search” and “properties values regular expression search”, and I only found guides to using regular expressions generally.

I searched my Vault for
[/String/]
and got all the notes with properties String and BigString. But when I tried searching for
[/(String)/: /(OtherString)/]
[“/(String)/”: /(OtherString)/]

I got 0 results.

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See if this matches your expectations:
[/.*?String/: /OtherString/]

Explanation:
Regular expression mode switched on with pair of / in both key and value places.

.*? in regex layman’s terms means you either have anything before String or not; good for cases where you have word compounds and you want to make a qualifier optional.

Related:

For the value part, /OtherString/, see also this thread with my workaround:

In our current case, though, the closing / had to be applied in both key and value places.

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Though Regex is the most precise, you could also try doing line: (String OtherString) which would restrict the search to look at a given line for both strings.