I'm struggling to exclude certain episodes of Click in a pvr run. I can make one work such 'Short Edition' but if I also want to exclude something like 'World Cup Click Off' then it fails to exclude that one.

Here's a full list of Click searches on tv :-
1156:   Click - Short Edition - Hey from Hay, BBC News, b0b4l1qj
1157:   Click - Short Edition - 16/06/2018, BBC News, b0b6511z
1158:   Click - It's Been Emotional, BBC News, b0b4kg9d
1159:   Click - Hey from Hay, BBC News, b0b5hghs
1160:   Click - World Cup Click Off, BBC News, b0b64zzv
1161:   Click - Inside E3 - The World's Largest Gaming Expo, BBC News, b0b72y6r
INFO: 6 matching programmes

If I now add an exclusion to that command, it successfully removes those episodes, viz :-
get_iplayer click --exclude="Short Edition"

1158:   Click - It's Been Emotional, BBC News, b0b4kg9d
1159:   Click - Hey from Hay, BBC News, b0b5hghs
1160:   Click - World Cup Click Off, BBC News, b0b64zzv
1161:   Click - Inside E3 - The World's Largest Gaming Expo, BBC News, b0b72y6r
INFO: 4 matching programmes

But if I also want to exclude one of those, such as 'World Cup Click Off', I do it like this :-

get_iplayer click --exclude="World Cup Click Off,Short Edition". I've also tried this :-
get_iplayer click --exclude="World Cup Click Off|Short Edition"

But I still get it shown and get the same 4 results shown above.

Where am I going wrong?

See FAQ list and documentation for info on searching across multiple fields.

I've looked through the FAQ several times and also searched the history for other people trying to exclude items but no luck. Hence my question here.

Hint 1: --exclude is not your problem

Hint 2: re-read my response carefully

Hint 3: re-read the new title I gave this thread

Hint 1: --exclude is not your problem

Ah. In that case, I'll look elsewhere.

Hint 2: re-read my response carefully

Point well made :-)

Hint 3: re-read the new title I gave this thread

When I refresh the page, it doesn't show the title, just the content so can I be let off that one? ;-)

I'll try again and report back. Thanks for the hints.

I'm still struggling with this and would appreciate a bit more hand-holding to point out where I'm going wrong.

If I search for Click, I get 9 matches including the 'Short Edition'. Including that in a search with --exclude "Short Edition" reduces that number to 5. But if I want, for example to only grab the full file with "Can AI Beat a GP" in the title, I can search for the episode name like this :-

But that still shows 2 episodes, including a short edition so why doesn't my exclude line work in the search while it did in the previous one?

B*gger!

Ever heard the expression 'Cardboard Programmer'? I needed one here. I've made the thing work having looked again, and again at this and finally it dawned on me. Using this code :-
I get the desired result!