# Query Help: lines tagged with a specific value
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [July 24, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279 "2026-07-24T14:37:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@greencow](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/greencow)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/1 "2026-07-24T14:37:26Z")
I would like to create a query that scans all of my pages list any lines (not pages) with a specific tag value, for instance 'shopping'...
possible?
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### Author:  [@henrikx](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/henrikx)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/2 "2026-07-25T22:09:32Z")
Is this what you want?
```markdown
${query [[
from p = index.paragraphs()
where p.itags and table.includes(p.itags, "shopping")
select { Page = "[[" .. p.page .. "]]", Line = p.text }
]]}
test #shopping
```
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### Author:  [@greencow](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/greencow)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/3 "2026-07-27T12:59:21Z")
Thanks - yes. Will this also pick up any tagged tasks?
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### Author:  [@henrikx](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/henrikx)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/4 "2026-07-27T14:57:15Z")
No, but you can do the following
```auto
${combineTables(query [[
from p = index.paragraphs()
where p.itags and table.includes(p.itags, "shopping")
select { Page = "[[" .. p.page .. "]]", Line = p.text }
]],
query [[
from p = index.tasks()
where p.itags and table.includes(p.itags, "shopping")
select { Page = "[[" .. p.page .. "]]", Line = p.text }
]])
}
```
This requires the following space-lua
```lua
function combineTables(table1, table2)
local result = table1
for _, v in ipairs(table2) do
table.insert(result,v)
end
return result
end
```
You can put space-lua for combineTables anywhere in your space. I recommend putting it somewhere like "Library/Custom/CombineTables" and tagging it with #meta. Remember to run a system reload in command-palette after adding the space-lua.
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### Author:  [@greencow](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/greencow)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/5 "2026-07-27T15:46:23Z")
Perfect! Thanks so much.
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### Author:  [@henrikx](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/henrikx)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/6 "2026-07-27T18:09:37Z")
@zef Hi. Just wondering if there is a reason not to do `combineTables` with tables or if it should be included in Std-library? Something like `table.union`? Or is there a way to do this with what is there today in Std-library?
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2026, 8:10am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/query-help-lines-tagged-with-a-specific-value/4279/7 "2026-07-28T08:10:54Z")
I think there's no off-the-shelf API to do this now, no. I try to stick to the Lua standard API as much as possible and not add _too_ much, although adding `table.union`, even as a non-standard API would be useful...