Selector for "does not contain"

[Peter Knight]

Hi guys

I'm using Batcher to batch remove all pages that meet certain criteria

• template is news_item
• old_url doesn't contain "news/"

I can do the opposite of the above and find all pages that do contain "/news/"

template=news_item,old_url*=news/

There doesn't seem to be an API call for finding fields that do not contain or do not start with a string ?

There's something close:

!=
Not equal to (any_field!=any_value)

which I use as follows

template=news_item,old_url!=news/

but this doesn't work. It pulls in pages with and without my selector criteria and I'd probably prefer does not contain as opposed to not equal to

Not posting this in the batcher forum as it's a general selector query.

Any pointers grateful accepted 

[kongondo]

Peter, 

http://processwire.com/api/selectors/#operators

[Peter Knight]

Got it - thanks