Parse final "," instead of first ","

[stacksjb]

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I often need to create a task that has a comma within it, but that won't work because the workflow parses any "," as a date delimiter

Describe the solution you'd like

Search from the end and parse only the final "," instead of all ","

Additional context

For example, a todo such as "Call Amy, John, and Jim, oct 10" should parse correctly to be due Oct 10 with a task of "Call Amy, John, and Jim".

This does raise the question of what about if I don't want a due date - is there a workaround such as entering it with quotes or brackets?

[moranje]

Sounds like a good idea. For now you are able to escape the ',' with ''. You might have to use double '\' to negate the escape character.

[moranje]

On second thought, it's not possible with a comma and the end of the line character, for example Get milk, eggs, flour and baking powder would break the expectation that you are able use comma characters in the task description. So escaping seems to be the only way to use the comma end of line string anchors. Perhaps a way to denote a datetime in a string Get milk {tommorow}, what do you think?

[stacksjb]

This definitely seems to be like something that is going to be different for every user. You could use a different delimiter, but that has the same issue with whatever that one is. Something like [tomorrow] would require some rework to get used to that but would work. So would having to put in "due " and parsing for "due" (then if it's not present, there would be no date).

I'm not sure how everyone else uses it or types things in so not sure what may be the best though. The official app searches for dates and parses those, and if you enter multiple dates it only counts the last one entered.