Everything_SetRegex

[hyadav]

Hi,

I am using 1.4.1.1002 version and via Everything SDK, calling API Everything_SetRegex in my program.

I have some files in c:\test\ folder in my device.

Case 1:

Everything_SetRegex(TRUE);
Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\*");
Everything_Query(TRUE);

-> doesnt return any results



Case 2:

Everything_SetRegex(FALSE);
Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\*");
Everything_Query(TRUE);

-> returns list of files in results


Question: Everything_SetRegex(TRUE) should enable regex and we should get results with wildcard search but in my case Everything_SetRegex(FALSE) is doing the wildcard searches.

Am I missing something?

[NotNull]

Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\*");

From the Everything regex help:

* Matches the preceding element zero or more times

So you are searching for multiple \\\\

Try this instead:

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Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\");

- or -

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Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\.*");

[hyadav]

Thanks for the reply.

Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\");
with Everything_SetRegex(TRUE) -> didnt return anything

Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\");
with Everything_SetRegex(FALSE) -> returned files list


Everything_SetSearch("c:\\test\\.*");
-> doesnt return any list with both Everything_SetRegex(TRUE) OR Everything_SetRegex(FALSE)

[NotNull]

Ah, I see : a \ is already specified as \\
In that case. doubling them should do the trick:

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Everything_SetSearch("c:\\\\test\\\\");
Everything_SetSearch("c:\\\\test\\\\.*");

(as you might have noticed, I have no prior experience with the SDK functions )

[hyadav]

Thanks for the reply.

The problem is not with slashes. The problem is with using wildcard in search string.

Using a wildcard in search string returns results when I have set Everything_SetRegex(FALSE)

Using a wildcard in search string DOESNT returns results when I have set Everything_SetRegex(TRUE) --> ideally this should have enabled regex search but it didnt.

[therube]

A Windows wildcard (if you will) is,

*

.
- match any sequence of characters
A RegEx wildcard (if you will) is,

.*

.
- match any character

.

zero or more times

*

So the wildcards you specify (* or .*) need to match how you're searching ("Windows" or RegEx).