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UPDATE First issue solved.
fenix_productions:

PS. I recomend to download Content-Plugin writer's guide. It has nice description of detect string (in ContentGetDetectString() chapter)..

I've searched the net through and through and didn't find any intelligent solution.

Case: SynPlus taking .doc, .exe, .PDF etc.
Goal: prevent SynPlus from doing this without creating elaborate inclusive list:

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(EXT="TXT"|EXT="HTML"|...EXT="***")

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I guess it can be done by introducing a negative modifier in the settings, i.e.

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!EXT="EXE"|!([0]="%"&[1]="!"&[2]="P"&[3]="S")... etc

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It would also be very convenient to be able to see inside the Lister window which plugins can handle the file - they are checked anyway, aren't they? - and switch between them knowingly and not blindly, because some plugins crash TC or even other programs like antiviruses or even not-so-stable systems. There was an external utility for for checking which plugin handles what but it was very buggy and incomplete, and i gave it up years ago.

Another thing, other type of plugins but the same idea, if one could review the list of packer plugins handling an unknown/uncommon/incorrectly named file and choose the one by wich an archive is handled, it could save a lot of pain.

2namorip
No need for "introducing, it's already implemented:

content plugin help wrote:!() NOT: The expression inside the braces will be inverted. Note that the braces are necessary!

I might be wrong but I think your expression is incorrect for your needs: for OR operator (pipe |) if at least one part of expression is true, than whole is. You should use AND (&).

So: Using De Morgan's laws it could be simplified:
So: PS. I recomend to download Content-Plugin writer's guide. It has nice description of detect string (in ContentGetDetectString() chapter)..

fenix_productions,
Hm, we are talking about Lister plugins. Is it the same?

Roman

2Hacker
I've just compared pages for ListGetDetectString (from WLX help) and ContectGetDetectString (from WDX help).

They are almost the same. The only differences are: methods names (Lister/Content) and that no value is returned for lister (it's void instead of int).

2fenix_productions

Ah, great, thank you! It has even greater usability than I implied. Somehow, it doesn't get googled anywhere.

It doesn't, though, negate the other things I mentioned