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redwood
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by redwood » Wed Sep 21, 2022 2:24 pm
Hello, I want to search for files that contain both Arabic and English characters in any order in base name. I use a pattern but the problem is that it will match the extension as English characters as well. I need to match my string in any order and ignore extension
Arabic English.ext
regex:(?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.[*\x{0600}-\x{06ff}])
void
Developer
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by void » Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:59 pm
Please try the following:
regex:"([a-zA-Z].*[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}]|[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}].*[a-zA-Z]).*\.[^.]*$"
-or-
regex:[a-zA-Z].*[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}].*\.[^.]*$ | regex:[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}].*[a-zA-Z].*\.[^.]*$
For files that don't have an extension (maybe you want folders?), please try:
regex:"([a-zA-Z].*[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}]|[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}].*[a-zA-Z])(.*\.[^.]*|[^.]*)$"
redwood
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by redwood » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:44 am
I really appreciate this help and thank you very much.
each of them works well.
NotNull
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by NotNull » Fri Sep 23, 2022 9:44 pm
If you are using
Everything 1.5 , this can be done even simpler:
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regex:stem:[a-z] regex:stem:[\x{0600}-\x{06ff}]
regex in Everything is case-insensitive, so [a-z] will also match A-Z
(untested, btw)
redwood
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by redwood » Sat Sep 24, 2022 12:22 am
this is even better. finds files and folders without worrying about the extension. thank you!