Do not use greedy regex #1126
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Do not use greedy regex #1126
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Closes #1122.
The sorting issue happens in the search API, which uses regex to get the sortingkey and passes it to ncmp. After logging arguments for ncmp I found that it's taking not only the value for a key-value tag, but it's also getting subsequent tags, i.e. the comma is being included, e.g.
tags = "date_uploaded:123,date_added:321,tag1,tag2" with sortkey "date_uploaded" can sometimes overreach and be "123,date_added:321" instead of "123" and resulting in incorrectly sorted search results.
Checking again, turns out this regex is greedy. The fix is to disable greediness.