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I wish to find a file with a wholeword name that is NOT delimited by a punctuation symbol.

For example, I wish to find a file called

railway

but NOT see hits of files whose name contains

european.railway

I had hoped the search menu options for "Match Whole Words" and "Ignore Punctuation" may have helped but unfortunately not.

Can anyone advise how to formulate my search correctly?

You need to be more specific than the example you provided.
To me european.railway is not NOT delimited by a punctuation symbol as it does not end with a punctuation character.
Furthermore: how should filenames like european.railway.txt be handled?

Essentially, I wish to find files whose wholeword name is neither immediately preceded nor immediately followed by a punctuation symbol.

The example I gave of "railway" earlier is the full name of the files I seek, not a part of it. So I do not want the following.

european.railway
european-railway
railway.travel
railway-travel
european.railway.travel
european-railway-travel
etc

Is it possible to formulate a search to obtain this result?

Basically this will find all folders that do not have any punctuation character in their name.


For mode details, see Menu => Help => Regular Expression Syntax


EDIT: Missed the "folders" part in your question. Adapted the search query accordingly.

Please consider:

folder:regex:(^|\s)railway($|\s)


^ = match start of filename
| = OR
\s = match a 'space' character
$ = match end of filename



Do you want to allow .extension after railway?

If so:

regex:stem:(^|\s)railway($|\s)

(only useful if you wanted to match files)



For Everything 1.4, please use:

folder:regex:"(^|\s)railway($|\s)"

(use double quotes to escape | )