Sort by number at the end of folder name

[siomosp]

Hi, it is possible to add sorting by the number at the end of folder name ?

[void]

Requires Everything 1.5.

Include the following in your search:
regex:(\d+)
From the View menu, under the Sort by menu, under the Search submenu, click Regular Expression Match 1.

You can also show the Regular Expression Match 1 column by right clicking the result list column header and checking Search -> Regular Expression Match 1.

[siomosp]

Brilliant!


Thanks!!!

[harryray2]

What do the Regular Expression Match columns show?

Thanks.

[Mizufluffy]

What do the Regular Expression Match columns show?

Thanks.

If you search using regular expressions, for example with regex: function, then it shows the part that matches the regular expression. For example, on the example below I created some random files that all had something in common, in this case they all had some digits before the extension.

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This regex,

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regex:(\d+)

is searching for digits, \d, one or more time, +, and it's captured with brackets, (), in other words it matches with a substring of digits with length one or longer. If you have multiple capture groups then you could use multiple Regular Expression Match columns.

Here's an example what you can for example do with capturing groups with file renaming using regex and how to reference those groups. So, if the first group is () then you reference to it with \1, then the next group is () with reference \2 and so on.

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Here is one more example. This time with Regular Expression Match 1 and Match 2. Notice how the whole highlighted area isn't the same as in Match
columns but only very specific parts of the regex pattern. What I'm basically matching is the column after #2 and the column after #3. Similarly I could capture basically any other part of a file name and then use that to for example sort, find duplicates among other things.

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In other words, Regular Expression Match 0 - 9 is a very handy way to find and use only portion of the file name or other property. I could, for example, do regex:path:"(\\r\w{4})", and get a match for folder that starts with letter r and has four word characters after it. Anyway, what I mean is that there are a lot of use cases for these matches.