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Hi, I would like to search for only file names that begins with 'metal-', but not anything that contains 'metal-', how should i do that?

Please try the following search:

metal-* !metal-*metal-*

* = match any character any number of times and enables full name matching.
! = NOT

worked perfectly thank you.

hi I would like to follow up by asking if there is any way to filter out results that begins with numbers (i.e. 1-9) in a search?

!regex:^[1-9]

! = NOT
regex: = enable regular expressions
^ = match start of filename
[1-9] = match a single character from a set (1-9)

for some reason it is still showing in the results, am I doing something wrong?

You most likely have match path enabled from the Search menu.

Please try the following search:

!regex:name:^[1-9]

I did have match path enabled before, but even when i turn it off the results still will not filter out the intended files

Filenames starting with 0 are still included.

To exclude 0-9:

!regex:name:^[0-9]

-or-

!regex:name:^\d

\d = a single digit

oh I have overlooked '0', it works now as expected thank you.