Full-blown Regex engine needed

[digitaldog4]

Hi!

I appreciate that Total Commander has some Regex capabilities in various places, but today I run into an issue. I needed to search a pretty deep hierarchy of directories for a files with specific string. There was mix of source and binary files that matched. So I thought I can filter out binaries by just specifying the following regex in "Search in" textbox:
\.(?!dll|exe|cache)$
(look for any file which has a dot NOT FOLLOWED by any of the given extensions).

But it didn't work, it turned out that Total Commander doesn't support so-called "negative lookahead assertions".

So please either help me how can I complete similar tasks in the future, or possibly plan for inclusion of a full blown regex engine in TC. I noticed that basic syntax is (fortunately) similar to the one used by .NET / JavaScript / PCRE (which have the advanced features), so replacing this builtin engine with the one to offer full capabilities would not break anything.

Thanks!

[Stefan2]

You could utilize the TC NOT operator "|"



Look for any file which has NOT any of the given extensions: dll|exe|cache

Search for: [  |*.dll *.exe *.cache ]



Look for any file with "mystring" in name which has NOT any of the given extensions: dll|exe|cache

Search for: [  *mystring*|*.dll *.exe *.cache ]





Press F1-key while in Find dialog to read more about.



 

[chojrak11]

You could utilize the TC NOT operator "|"

Hoh, /me stupid... Thanks for the tip, and sorry for dumb post. I'll RTFM.
Thank you!