ALT-F7 Find filenames based on multiple words. OR AND

[nn1k3]

I finally realized how to search for multiple words in filenames.

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1) OR. Find files with filenames containing "cat" or "dog" or "mouse" or both:
	*cat* *dog* *mouse*

2) AND. Search for filenames containing "cat" and "dog":
	*cat*dog* *dog*cat*

3) AND. Search for filenames containing "cat" and "dog" and "mouse":
*cat*dog*mouse *dog*cat*mouse *cat*mouse*dog* *dog*mouse*cat* *mouse*cat*dog *mouse*dog*cat*

Example 1 is nice. Example 3 is ugly - better to just use Locate32.

This might be of general interest. Apologies if this is old news, or if I am mistaken.

[MVV]

Alt+F7, Plugins tab, choose OR/AND and set:

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tc.name contains cat
tc.name contains dog
tc.name contains mouse

[nn1k3]

I am very grateful to MVV for showing me the advantage of using the Plugins tab of Find File.

QUESTION: How would I do a complicated search for filenames that combines AND, OR, and NOT?

Example: I have four files in a folder: cat.txt, cats.txt, dog.txt, wrongfile.txt
I want Find Files to return only cat.txt and dog.txt.
How would I do that?

You know that this won't work because it also returns wrongfile.txt:
tc.name contains cat, tc.name contains dog, tc.name !contains cats

I'll use regex if necessary but I doubt that would help.
Locate32 would work but I want to use TC's feed-to-listbox.
Lefteous might suggest using Find File again on the listbox result. The downside is that I would lose my first search setup.

[white]

I am very grateful to MVV for showing me the advantage of using the Plugins tab of Find File.

QUESTION: How would I do a complicated search for filenames that combines AND, OR, and NOT?

Example: I have four files in a folder: cat.txt, cats.txt, dog.txt, wrongfile.txt
I want Find Files to return only cat.txt and dog.txt.
How would I do that?

You know that this won't work because it also returns wrongfile.txt:
tc.name contains cat, tc.name contains dog, tc.name !contains cats

Combine with: (*) AND (all match)
tc.name regex cat|dog, tc.name !contains cats

[nn1k3]

User "White" answered my question - thanks!

FYI I found that I could save White's search and it shows up in wincmd.ini [searches] as

white_plugin=tc.name regex cat|dog & tc.name !contains cats

That is no surprise to most of you, but some may benefit.