Select group bug?

[kwanbis]

I have this four files:

Day 1 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 10 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 11 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 2 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4

I want to select day 1 and 2 only so I use "Day ? *.*", but it selects all.

Day 10 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4 and Day 11 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4 clearly do not match the string, as they are actually "day ?? *.*".

Or I'm missing something?

[Dalai]

* matches any number of characters, so despite ? doesn't select the two-digit files * does.

Regards
Dalai

[Stefan2]

 
But you can use regex for selecting:

FROM:
Day 1 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 10 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 11 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 2 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4

Select:
Day 1 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 2 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4

USE e.g.:
<Day \d\D

or more common:
<\w+ \d\D

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[face=timesnewroman]BTW:
to sort like
Day 1 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 2 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 10 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4
Day 11 Jason Capital's STATUS.mp4

USE:
Preferences > Display > Natural sorting...[/face]

 

[kwanbis]

I don't understand what you mean. In windows, this "day ? *.*" reads:

Select all files that start with the string day, then have a space, then any one character then another space, and then whatever dot whatever.

[Dalai]

Ah, it's different than I thought. TC separates words (file types in this case) on spaces, so it selects the file "day", any file with one character (?), and any file (*.*). That's why all files are selected.

Example: Have some files of mixed types in any directory and type in the selection dialog "*.cmd *.au3" (without the quotes). TC selects all au3 files and all cmd files.

So, to solve your problem, you have to use quotes: "day ? *.*" (including the quotes!). This is also true for the CMD, btw.

Regards
Dalai

[kwanbis]

I see what you mean now.. thanks!