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Hello ,

Can anyone tell me if it's possible to search with regexp in the find plugin ?
I mean, i know that i can do find "*.*" but, for instance a certain types of documents are named (the bold indicates what I'm searching for) :
"AAAA.MM.DD - blah blah blah blah-blah [X.Y.DDD].ext"
where X and Y change and DDD is a number with 3 digits
So I searched for *\[?.?.\d\d\d\]* which is incorrect ... I tried many combinaisons and finally tried just *[?.?.???]* which works.

Is there a way to specify digit and alphabetical characters separately ?

Thanks in advance.

Youri

The regex implementation used in Salamander uses predefined character classes in the [[:digit:]] format. An alternative is to use [0-9]. If you click the arrow button on the right of the 'Containing:' field, you'll find more examples and a link to help topics covering this.

Note: I think the blackslashes before the brackets should stay there.

Finding a File Named: will only use file masks.

File Masks

Asterisk (*) and question mark (?) are wildcard characters. The asterisk matches any sequence of characters, whereas the question mark matches any single character. File masks contain wildcard characters (e.g. *.a? matches .a1, anything.ai, etc.) and are separated by semi-colon (e.g. *.txt;*.doc matches a.txt, b.doc, etc.). Excluded masks are placed after vertical line character (e.g. |*.txt;*.doc matches anything except *.txt;*.doc). If you need a semi-colon inside mask, type it twice (e.g. one;;mask).

When searching File content, you can search using RE's.

An (excellent IMO) separate program to try (only works on NTFS formatted, local disks):

Everything search engine.
Better yet the alpha, "Everything" version 1.2.1.451a.
And Regex.

therube wrote:When searching File content, you can search using RE's.

My bad, I confused it with the file names.