Issues with Everything and regex

[mheartley72]

Hello and good day,

I have a inquiry about Everything and I'm actually quite confused.

I know there maybe a different way to do this however I'm attempting to keep my old feeble mind sharp when it comes to regex so I am attempting to exercise this knowledge some.

Here is my ponderence. I'm doing a statement that looks for both the .jpg and .jpeg extensions with regex. When I activate the regex via menu option/keyboard shortcut, the following statement works like a charm.

\.\jp(g|eg)

This returns what I expect to see.

However because I also want to just show a certain time/date range, I want to enable the regex parameter without it being global so I can use the dm: function.

However when I just put this into Everything regex:\.\jp(g|eg), it returns only one file and it is not even a picture file!

Am I using the regex: parameter incorrectly? I have done similar statements and it has worked correctly. I will admit in those other scenarios, I was not looking for an extension nor was i telling Everyting in those instances to substitute the ending with two different variants.

Thank you for your time and if someone more versed in this tool can maybe show a shortcut that I could file away for reference, I will appreciate that input as well.

[mheartley72]

Here is some screenshots to hopefully better illustrate the issue.

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[therube]

You want,

regex:\.jp(e?)g

.
Says to match "jp" AND "e", zero or 1 times, AND g.

You might want to add a $ to to only match at the end of the name

regex:\.jp(e?)g$

.


You could also use,

ext:jpg;jpeg

.

(g|eg)

, say to match:
g OR | OR e OR g
not g OR "eg"

[NotNull]

regex:\.\jp(g|eg)

regex and Everything BOTH use the | as an OR operator.
In this case, Everything "wins" and will split the search in two separate ones:

• regex:\.\jp(g
• eg)

The first part before the OR does not produce any meaningful results.
The regex mode stops after that and a normal search for eg) will find your single .lng file

To tell Everything the | belongs to the regex query, enclose the regular expressions in "":

regex:"\.\jp(g|eg)"

There is an extra unneeded backslash in your regular expression.
Replace

\.\jp(g|eg)

with

\.jp(g|eg)

:

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regex:"\.jp(g|eg)"

Do you get the expected results with this new search?

[mheartley72]

Hello and good day,

I did see that Everything used the | operator as or however because I put it after the regex: option, I figured that it would be parsed through regex and not through Everything.

You are correct that I did put an extra escape character in. See what happens when older folks don’t keep using regex.

Thank you for looking into it however I was under the impression that using “” would not parse the | correctly.

I’ll give it a go when I get a moment.

Thanks again!

[NotNull]

I figured that it would be parsed through regex and not through Everything.

Everything 1.5 - currently in development - will handle it this way (at least: it looks like it)

[mheartley72]

I figured that it would be parsed through regex and not through Everything.

Everything 1.5 - currently in development - will handle it this way (at least: it looks like it)

Good to know! Thank you for the info!

[mheartley72]

You want,

regex:\.jp(e?)g

.
Says to match "jp" AND "e", zero or 1 times, AND g.

You might want to add a $ to to only match at the end of the name

regex:\.jp(e?)g$

.


You could also use,

ext:jpg;jpeg

.

(g|eg)

, say to match:
g OR | OR e OR g
not g OR "eg"

Good info especially the extension operator! Thanks!