Searching for a string in single quotes

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Searching for a string in single quotes

Postby torredipisa » Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:56 pm

Hello everyone

I have to search for every file whose name contains a string delimited by single quotes (or other chars)
for example 'november' 'long run' etc...
Although very simple question I could not solve it.
Could you pls help me?

Thank for yr time
Fabio
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Re: Searching for a string in single quotes

Postby Luuk » Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:00 pm

Greetings Fabio! Inside of the Filters(12), you can use different "Masks" like *'*'* to find any names with at least two single-quotes.
After typing any new Mask, then to click the nearby blue-arrows, so the matching names will be presented inside of the file-listing.

If you only wanted to search for names with 'november' or 'long run', it would be a longer Mask like... *'november'* "*'long run'*"
Since space is used to separate different searches, if needing to search for a space, you have to surround it with double-quotes.
The "*" just says "anything", and you can also use ! to forbid presenting anything inside of the file-listing.

So to search for names with 'november' or 'long run', but never any names with "scout", it can be like *'november'* "*'long run'*" !*scout*
Just remember to click the nearby blue-arrows, so then Filters(12) will begin conducting the search.
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Re: Searching for a string in single quotes

Postby therube » Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:02 pm

Everything.

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regex:'\w+'

(That searches for a "word" delineated with single quotes.)

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Rock 'n' Roll Singer.m4a
SeaMonkey cursor is a 'bar'.png


Drag your wanted files from Everything into BRU.


Something like this is more broad:
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regex:'.*'


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MSN-'NOT SET YET'.TXT
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