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No worries my friend. I'm sure we all had to race against the clock today and your English is just fine.

Thanks again for the encouraging words.

Thanks for the thoughts. I appreciate it very much. I have a lot to learn. The actual query I'm feeding to Everything isn't regex. It's just dos-ish wildcards. The regex I mentioned is applied elsewhere. It's a mechanism to summarize and generalize all those specific ransomware filespecs. For exampl...

I just uploaded a suite of anti-ransomware tools to Git Hub at: https://github.com/SparkyzCodez/FSRM-Anti-ransomware There are PowerShell scripts to install and configure FSRM, a Python script to keep ransomware definitions up to date, and a Python script that uses Everything to scan entire systems ...

For anyone else who may be interested, here are all the 'W' defines from Everything.h dated 17Dec2016: Everything_SetSearchW Everything_GetSearchW Everything_QueryW Everything_Query2W Everything_GetResultFileNameW Everything_GetResultPathW Everything_GetResultFullPathNameW Everything_GetResultExtens...

Thanks! I'm all Unicode all the time because Python 3 is good about it and a lot of the my file names contain it. I'll let Everything.h be my guide.

SparkyZ

This is a little embarrassing, but how do I know when I should use a call that ends in 'W' as Everything_SetSearchW does and when I should use a call without the capital 'W' like Everything_SetRequestFlags? That's it, that's my whole question. The https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/sdk/ pa...