How to find some file, this doesn't work.

[vascaraus]

hello. I need to find this file, which exist in my folder:

Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 11 (164) 1980.pdf

This is how I make the find:

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why can't it find my file?

[Dalai]

If the search term contains a dot, TC will only search for exact matches. Since your file is name "something Nr. 11 something.pdf" and not just "something Nr. 11 something", it won't find it. You need to modify your search term: add the extension, or replace any dots with a question mark or an asterisk to make TC not just look for exact matches.

BTW, this behavior is mentioned in TC's help (press F1 while in the search window).

Regards
Dalai

[RedTiF]

"Find text" is also ticked, you are also searching for blank text in the file. Is that what you want?

Rgds RedTiF

[Stefan2]

"Find text" is also ticked, you are also searching for blank text in the file. Is that what you want?

ticked "Find text" with empty box will not searching for blank text in the file. Just check it out yourself.


"replace any dots" will not help here, only adding the extension (or just an asterisk *) will find the file.
Or searching for less parts like one or two word, a number or the hyphen will also find the file.
The space char separates the whole search term (because it is here unquoted) into different search masks.



 

[Horst.Epp]

This is a very easy task enabling the Everything option in the TC search.
Then something Nr. 11 something and any shorter version of it is found
without complicated syntax and rules.

[vascaraus]

This is a very easy task enabling the Everything option in the TC search.
Then something Nr. 11 something and any shorter version of it is found
without complicated syntax and rules.

thanks

[vascaraus]

ok, there is a good chance to find that file with .dot, if I choose to find with RegEx. I put \ in front of all .dot And it works, super !

THE BIG PROBLEM is that I need to find multiple files. Each file can be find separately, ok. But what if I have 10 files?

I put * or *: between name of the files, but is not working...

[white]

2vascaraus, I'm not sure what you want, but if you want to search for multiple strings using RegEx use the pipe "|" symbol. For example:

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 \.dot|\.txt|\.cal

[vascaraus]

For example I have this 3 files that have . and (). So, I can use RegEx for search. I can put \. or \( or \) in front of any element that is use by regex.

Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 11 (164) 1980.pdf
Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 26 (4) 1990.pdf
Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 198 (32) 1991.pdf

Please tell me for this example how to find all 3 files with TCM (using RegEx or other way).

[vascaraus]

I think I find the solution. I must put "|" between files, like this:

Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 11 \(164\) 1980\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 26 \(4\) 1990\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 198 \(32\) 1991\.pdf

[white]

2vascaraus
Yes, that is the correct syntax for RegEx if you want to search using full name.

It does however searches for a match anywhere in the file name. So it would also find for example:
My Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 11 (164) 1980.pdf
Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 198 (32) 1991.pdf (1)
Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 26 (4) 1990.pdf (2)

To match full file name using RegEx use:

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^(Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 11 \(164\) 1980\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 26 \(4\) 1990\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 198 \(32\) 1991\.pdf)$

[vascaraus]

So I have tu put

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^(

at the beginning and

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)$

at the end of search

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^(Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 11 \(164\) 1980\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 26 \(4\) 1990\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 198 \(32\) 1991\.pdf)$

Thanks. I test it, and works also simple. Just put "|" between files, and for all ".dot" and "()" brackets just put "\" in front of it

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Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 11 \(164\) 1980\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 26 \(4\) 1990\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 198 \(32\) 1991\.pdf

[white]

So I have tu put

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^(

at the beginning and

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)$

at the end of search

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^(Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 11 \(164\) 1980\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 26 \(4\) 1990\.pdf|Revista Magazin istoric - Nr\. 198 \(32\) 1991\.pdf)$

Yes, if you want to make absolutely sure that no other files are found.
In RegEx ^ means the beginning, $ means the end. So in order to match an entire file name you would use:

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^expression$

to match an entire file name with multiple expressions:

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^expression1$|^expression2$|^expression3$

or group the expressions:

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^(expression1|expression2|expression3)$

[white]

2vascaraus
Of course it's simpler if you don't use RegEx.
When searching without RegEx the whole filename is matched when there is a dot in your expression. So normally you can just add quotes:

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"Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 11 (164) 1980.pdf" "Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 198 (32) 1991.pdf" "Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 26 (4) 1990.pdf"

Or without spaces in between:

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"Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 11 (164) 1980.pdf""Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 198 (32) 1991.pdf""Revista Magazin istoric - Nr. 26 (4) 1990.pdf"

In the rare case that your filename doesn't have a filename extension and has no dots in the name, you must add a dot at the end:

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"File without ext."