Smart Collection - How to search on dash or space ('-' or ' ')

Question

I am trying to create a smart collection that will filter out any photos that have a dash or space ('-' or ' ') as the last character of a title.

The filter does not work... I expect these are used as "special characters." Is there any way around that? Some way to indicate "use this character as typed."

I have tried "" (as in "-") and \ (as in \-) but neither work. I cannot find any docs on how to search for special characters. I am hoping that I just overlooked it somewhere...

johnrellis · Answer

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LR's search facility is not well-designed and has bugs.

For hyphens, the criterion "Title ends with -" ~~doesn't work in smart collections. However, it does work in the Library Filter bar:~~ works in both smart collections and the Library Filter bar:

With respect to spaces, there's no way to search for spaces with LR's built-in search.

As a workaround, you could use the Any Filter plugin to search for titles ending with space or hyphen:

[Update: I incorrectly tested smart collections previously.]

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