How do i exclude "commas" from search results?

[rohithkumarsp]

I really hate the app doesn't recognize the file if it has a comma in the file, if i have a file named "apple , mango" it WILL not show up results if i search "apple , mango" but will show results if i type them without the comma, its frustrating, is there anyway to either get the app working with commas or to exclude commas?

[NotNull]

Searching for one of the following should report your "apple, mango" file:

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"apple, mango"
apple, mango
apple , mango

Make sure you have no search modifiers (Match .. , Enable Regex) enabled under the Search menu entry.

[Mizufluffy]

Here is a simple example. I created a few files with similar names.

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apple , mango.fruits
apple mango.fruits
apple, mango.fruits
apple,mango.fruits

In the image below I had three different searches going:

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apple mango
apple , mango
"apple , mango"

The first one has no comma and can find all files because they all have 'apple' and 'mango' in their name. The second one can find those that have 'apple', ',' and 'mango' in their name but not the one without comma. The third can only find the one with exact phrase where comma has a space on both sides.

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[rohithkumarsp]

Make sure you have no search modifiers (Match .. , Enable Regex) enabled under the Search menu entry.

hmm, today i tried again, for the first time in years it worked, then i saw the search settings, it did have regex off, so i don't know if it was enabled all these days or how it was turned off today but it seems to be working fine now, thanks

[rohithkumarsp]

ok, while commas do ineed work, i still need an exclude option, for example Apple + Mango, it just wouldn't show results unless i remove the + symbol

[void]

Everything will match what you search for.
That is, if you search for a comma, Everything will find files containing a comma in their filename.


Are you pasting the search into Everything?
-If so, please use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste without punctuation.



Are you typing the comma?
-If so, please skip typing the comma.


Please note:
a space in Everything means AND. (abc 123 == abc AND 123)
Use double quotes to escape spaces. ( "abc 123" == literal abc 123 )



Are you trying to find apple <an optional comma> mango? (to match apple mango OR apple, mango)

You would need regex for this, please try the following search:
regex:"apple *,? *mango"

regex: = enable regular expressions.
apple = match literal text: apple
<space>* = match a space any number of times.
,? = match a , (if it exists)
<space>* = match a space any number of times.
mango = match literal text: mango

[Mizufluffy]

ok, while commas do ineed work, i still need an exclude option, for example Apple + Mango, it just wouldn't show results unless i remove the + symbol

It's a little bit hard for me to understand what kind of file names you are expecting to find. Do you have any actual full file names you could show as an example? Do you have a + symbol in the file names you are searching for?
For example, if I have these file names with "apple" and "mango" in their name:

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apple , mango.fruits
apple + mango - Copy.fruits
apple + mango.fruits
apple mango.fruits
apple, mango.fruits
apple,mango.fruits
lots of apple + mango.fruits
lots of bananas + mango and apple.fruits

and I search for

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apple + mango

(notice: no double quotes!)
then I can find these as a result:

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apple + mango - Copy.fruits
apple + mango.fruits
lots of apple + mango.fruits
lots of bananas + mango and apple.fruits

As void already explained, a space means AND operator (unless it's escaped using double quotes) so the search finds all results that include all three search terms (apple, +, mango) in any order.
If I had double quotes:

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"apple + mango"

then I would find these file names

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apple + mango - Copy.fruits
apple + mango.fruits
lots of apple + mango.fruits

As you can see, one of the results is missing compared to when not using double quotes.

Just to confirm, by exclude option what do you want to exclude from the results?
Exclusion operator is ! so continuing from my above searches if I'd want to exclude all file names that contain a + sign but have both apple and mango in their name, I could type

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apple !+ mango

and I'd get these file names:

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apple , mango.fruits
apple mango.fruits
apple, mango.fruits
apple,mango.fruits

If I wanted to exclude a comma then I could do this:

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apple !, mango

and get these results:

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apple + mango - Copy.fruits
apple + mango.fruits
apple mango.fruits
lots of apple + mango.fruits
lots of bananas + mango and apple.fruits

In a similar fashion you could for example exclude apple or mango:

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!apple mango

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apple !mango

Edit:
I decided to expand a little bit more on the topic...

If you wanted to find files that only contain apple or mango but not both at the same time you could do this:

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<apple !mango> | <!apple mango>

Here's explanation:
< > are grouping symbols.
a space is AND operator, it basically means when this AND that are true
! is NOT operator, it basically reverses the meaning so if "mango" means find a mango then "!mango" means do NOT find mango
| symbol is OR operator, it basically means find this OR that
In the first group on the left we are finding file names that contains apple but does not contain mango. In the second group we are finding file names that do not contain apple but contains mango. Then we sum these groups together with OR operator as "find these group 1 results OR these group 2 results".

Now you might ask why not simply do

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apple | mango

This is because it's not exclusive or operator. This would find all results with only apple, only mango or both of them. However, we could do

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<apple | mango> !<apple mango>

to get the same result as with

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<apple !mango> | <!apple mango>

because we simply exclude the results where both apple and mango exists in the file name.

Speaking of which, XOR operator could be a nice addition. It's something that's not a must have but it certainly could make some searches look a lot more simple with apple XOR mango searches instead of having to expand them. Not that I have really needed them myself yet...

[rohithkumarsp]

my problem is when i want to copy search a result that has + in it, the app doesn't show results unless i remove +

now for the commas, here's my problem

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File name Apple, Mango and Orange

if i search

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Apple, Mango and Orange = Results show up

Apple, Mango , and Orange = Results show up

Apple , Mango , and Orange = Results show up

Apple, Mango, and Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

Apple, Mango, Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

Apple , Mango , Orange = Results show up

see how inconsistent the symbols are while searching?

so this is the same issue as the + symbol, i just want to exclude commas or symbols while searching so i get a result

[therube]

when i want to copy search a result that has + in it, the app doesn't show results unless i remove +

Copy from where?
If from outside of Everything:

Are you pasting the search into Everything?
-If so, please use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste without punctuation.

[Mizufluffy]

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File name Apple, Mango and Orange

if i search

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Apple, Mango, and Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

Apple, Mango, Orange = Results DOESN'T show up

see how inconsistent the symbols are while searching?

so this is the same issue as the + symbol, i just want to exclude commas or symbols while searching so i get a result

This is because those two have word

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Mango,

instead of word

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Mango

and your file name had following words:

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Apple,

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Mango

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and

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Orange

So, if you search for

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Apple, Mango and Orange
Apple, Mango , and Orange
Apple , Mango , and Orange

None of those have word "Mango," (with the comma). When you separate the commas with spaces then Everything understands a space as AND operator. So, for example, this

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Apple, Mango and Orange

equals the following search:
Apple, AND Mango AND and AND Orange
but this one

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Apple, Mango, and Orange

equals the following search:
Apple, AND Mango, AND and AND Orange

In other words, they are trying to find file names that have all of those separate search terms. Unless you are trying to find the exact file name (and using double quotes) then you don't need to use comma multiple times. For example, you could find your file with the following search:

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, orange mango apple

(notice the comma at the beginning and the word order is different than in your file name!)

Here's an example:

2021-10-15 18_38_25-, orange mango apple - Everything (1.5a) 1.5.0.1280a (x64).jpg (64.22 KiB) Viewed 10423 times

So, in conclusion, both of those searches that failed for you were caused by a comma immediately following Mango ("Mango,") because your file didn't have "Mango," in the file name.

[void]

Please try the Everything 1.5 alpha and use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste without punctuation.