Searching files with a specific number of characters

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Nenad034
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Searching files with a specific number of characters

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I would need a little help since I've never used "Regular expressions" so far.
How can I find files with more than 16 characters?
I was trying with Property: name OP: !regex ... but Value confuses me... :roll:
Any help would be highly appreciated.
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Gral
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Re: Searching files with a specific number of characters

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.{17,}
And - most important - choose "regex" NOT "!regex"
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Re: Searching files with a specific number of characters

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Search for:

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.{16,}
Check RegEx

It searches for any character repeating 16 or more times.

You can also use FileEx plugin, it has fields for filename lengths, so you can use it in the plugins tab in a less cryptic way if you are not familiar with Regex.

Edit: @Gral was faster...
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Re: Searching files with a specific number of characters

Post by *Nenad034 »

Thank you so much guys 🙏
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