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Search usage
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 12:55 am
by Zydeco
If I enter something like *.jpg or *.mp3, I get no search results. If I omit the *, I get the expected results, but I also get any file that contains jpg or mp3 without the period.
I am using 1.2.1.371. I must be doing some basic thing wrong because it seems nobody else has reported this simple problem. Help?
Re: Search usage
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 2:17 am
by daspud
leave off the splat (*)
Just search .jpg or .mp3
Re: Search usage
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
by Zydeco
daspud wrote:leave off the splat (*)
Just search .jpg or .mp3
Thanks, but that doesn't give me a logical result. For example, using
.mp3 includes files such as
rjmp3pln.dll, a RealPlayer plugin, along with the desired music files. Oddly enough, using
.mp3 or
mp3 returns a different number of results, neither of which is correct.
Looks like a program bug to me, but I can't imagine that nobody else has noticed and reported this behavior.
Re: Search usage
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:26 am
by tonne
Is Enable Regex checked in the search menu. If true the . match any char.
Re: Search usage
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:00 am
by Zydeco
tonne wrote:Is Enable Regex checked in the search menu. If true the . match any char.
Yes! Thanks, tonne, that was the trick I needed. Just need to remember to mash Ctrl-R to toggle Regex off. (I should have figured that out, but I'm happy that you did instead.)