How to filter to video files within a folder with a matching name?

[zonetrooperex]

Is it possible in Everything to:

show video files where the folders they exists within match their file name.



e.g.

filename: example-video.mp4

that exists in the folder: example-video

[NotNull]

Untested:

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regex:^.*\\(.+?)\\\1\.[^\.\\]*$ 

Explanation will follow if this does indeed work...

[zonetrooperex]

Thanks, it seems to work.

• Can it be modified to match on the first 12 characters?
• Is it case insensitive?

[raccoon]

The first 12 characters of the folder name, matching the first 12 characters of the file name? Or 12 characters anywhere in the folder matching 12 characters anywhere in the file? You have to be specific about anchorage.

Yes, the match between the folder and the filename are case insensitive depending on your Search -> Match Case setting.

[NotNull]

It is case-INsensitive

Can it be modified to match on the first 12 characters?

The answer is yes, but I have no idea what you actually mean. Can you give an example (or two) of files/folders that should match/ should not match?

[zonetrooperex]

I mean the prefix for the filename (matching the first 12 characters of the file name).

e.g. this would match

filename: 123456789012ABC.txt
folder: 123456789012

[NotNull]

So c:\12345\12345.txt should not match? Only if the foldername is exact 12 characters long?

[zonetrooperex]

hmm. no. I guess it's more like "allow suffix in filename", I'll do some homework on this.

[void]

Does the following help:

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regex:^.*\\([^\\]{12})[^\\]*\\\1[^\\]*$ 

regex: = enable regex
^ = match start of filename
.*\\ = match any character up to a literal \
([^\\]{12}) = match any character except \ 12 times and capture the group.
[^\\]*\\ = match any character except \ up to a literal \
\1 = match the previous group capture.
[^\\]*$ = match any character except \ up to the end of the filename

[raccoon]

@void: Are there any weird string tricks for matching parentpath: as a startswith: in basename:? Just curious.

@zonetrooperex: To answer another part of your question; include the video: keyword to narrow down your results to videos-only.

[void]

The following comes to mind:

regex:basename:^([^.]{12}) expand:parentname:\1

capture the first 12 characters in basename.
expand: will allow \1 recall for the parentname: search.



expand:

[raccoon]

nifty! going to have to play with expand: now.