Quick search for files of a length

[cavaliersa]

Is it possible to add functionality to allow for quick search to also search based on the filename length.

For example, assuming files

1. AAA
2. AAAA
3. AAAAA

If I quick search for A###.* (assuming the amount of hashes to be the amount of extra characters making up the filename) then it will only return file 2.

Hope this explains this sufficiently.

[HolgerK]

A???.

[x] Beginning (name must start with first typed character)
[x] Ending (last character before typed dot . must match)

Regards
Holger

[cavaliersa]

I'm looking for match on the length of the filename without matching the last character so don't think that will work.

In my example above I want to match a file that start's with A and is 4 characters long (so 3 hashes) and can have whatever file extension. I've tried the ? route but unfortunately it does not work for me, it includes files that are shorter than the amount of characters replaced. So A???. will show me both files 1 and 2.

[HolgerK]

[x] Beginning (name must start with first typed character)
[x] Ending (last character before typed dot . must match)

Did you set these options?

Regards
Holger

[cavaliersa]

*slaps forehead*

Apologies Holger, the Ending option had not been set (I could swear that I did).

This now works just fine. Thanks very much for this.

[Samuel]

In QSX you may search with an regular expression like:

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?^a...\.

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?  - turns regular expression mode on
^  - matches the beginning of the file
a  - matches the char "a"
.  - matches any char
\. - matches a dot

[white]

This now works just fine.

Not quite. Try:

• a.js
  a.is.not.b.pdf
  aint.good.pdf

[Samuel]

This now works just fine.

Not quite. Try:

• a.js
  a.is.not.b.pdf
  aint.good.pdf

My solution isn't perfect either. But both solutions should fit most of the cases. Perhaps this one is perfect:

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?^a...\.[^\.]*$

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to the English forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]