XYplorer Beta Club

Hi,
I was searching for a folder which had the words 'Black Box' in it. I knew I had it somewhere but it might have had some words before 'Black Box' so I couldn't just manually search alphabetically.

So I used the Search function and in Name, I simply entered: black box (with Attributes set to Directory). However nothing came up!? So I reduced the search to: black, and of course found quite a few, among which....'Black.Box'!
You guessed it, that dot between Black & Box was the problem!

Isn't there a way to make the search a bit more relaxed, so that it just finds each occurrence of the words black & box, but wherever they may be in a folder/files name? So that not only "The.Big.Black.Box" would be found but also something like "A Black Hat and a Red Box" would be also found?

Thanks!

I don't want to find "something", I'm looking for concise matches. So why don't you just execute a less strict search like
:black & box
or
>black.*box
?

So why don't you just execute a less strict search

I think the answer is pretty obvious... because I didn't know how to do what you describe.
In fact, I see it works (thanks!) but I definitely don't understand it.
What is the " : " and " & ", " > " (the * wildcard, I knew about) doing in the search function, I have no idea but ok, I'll take note.
Thanks.

F1 key while in the search dialog would have explained them...

Yikes! Just clicked that F1 button...it would have taken me an hour or more to read and digest it all so thanks for the help!