Help please with regex

[burgundy]

I want to find all files from CIMG0001 to CIMG9999 on the D: drive

As far as I can tell, I need to use regex although I am not very good at it! I get this far:

CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]

(Q1) How do I also specify the D: drive in regex?

(Q2) How do I specify JPG files in regex? Sometimes my file names contain some additional text between "CIMGxxxx" and the file extension.

[froggie]

Without "enable regex" selected in search try

d:\ ext:jpg;jpeg regex:^CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]

Everything ANDs the terms together. It is not necessary to have them all within the regx. The "^" says match at beginning of filename.

[burgundy]

That works nicely. Much obliged!

Out of interest, is there a way to specify the drive letter or the JPG file extension within a regex?

I mean when Everything is set to Menu > Search > Enable Regex

[froggie]

The jpg is easy, just add

.*\.(jpg|jpeg)

after the last [0-9].

When you add the D:\ to the regex, you have to match the entire path up to the CIMG, so you end up with

P:\\.*CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*\.(jpg|jpeg)

, which is fine as long as there is no folder with a CIMGnnnn name.

I generally find that using the minimum amount of regex is the quickest way for me, although regex is very powerful when you need it.

[RegexNinja]

Hi, just wanted to note that some of the regexes could match names like abcCIM0001.jpg or CIM0001xyz.jpg
If its important to filter such names, you can use things like:
regex:"D:.*\\CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\.(jpg|jpeg)$"
regex:"D:.*\\CIMG[0-9]{4}\.jpe{0,1}g$"

[NotNull]

When you add the D:\ to the regex, you have to match the entire path up to the CIMG, so you end up with

P:\\.*CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].*\.(jpg|jpeg)

, which is fine as long as there is no folder with a CIMGnnnn name.

To prevent finding foldernames with CIMGnnnn in their name:

^P:.*\\CIMG[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][^\\]*\.(jpg|jpeg)$

(but that is all getting a little overcomplicated; I agree with froggie: "I generally find that using the minimum amount of regex is the quickest way for me, although regex is very powerful when you need it.")