How to search for exact name.

[rod222]

Searching *.jpg files
Require ultramar, get responses includes ultramarine
How to I search for the exact text string?
Can members suggest verbiage so I can search for results also in the help files?
I didn't know where to start.
Thank you.

[admin]

Not sure about the context. Are you maybe talking about the live filter box?

[rod222]

Sorry Admin,
this is all new to me.
Yes, I have say 100,000 images and I want a subset "ultramar" which I type into visual filter, and the magnifying glass.
I want it to search main and all subfolders

I was getting ultramar, and all instances of ultramar plus further text, like ultramarine ultramarino etc etc
I would like to search only the exact word

A colleague suggested "ultramar and !ultramarine" which worked to a point.
I thought there may be a way to search exact words/text strings.
Thank you.

[highend]

Don't know if I got it...

You could try:
>^ultramar\b

It's a regex pattern.
It searches for names that begin with ultramar and have a word boundary after it (like a dot)

This would find things like
ultramar.jpg
ultramar.png

but not
ultramarine.jpg
etc.

[rod222]

Salutations Highend.
Thank you, shall give it a whizz, and report.

[rod222]

Highend,
that didn't work, no worries I'll keep reading the help files.

[rod222]

Two disappointing things about visual filter, ( I am a novice user)
1. Whilst the program is loading files, there is no egg cup timer, first time I selected a folder, I thought the computer was hanging, there was no indication XYPlorer was working.
2. when visual filter has found a sub-set, there is no numerical count of the results.

[RalphM]

1. Can't confirm as I haven't found an easy test that's slow enough.
2. The status bar shows "x out of y items" on the left side.

[highend]

Highend,
that didn't work

Aha. Maybe you can explain what exactly doesn't work?

[admin]

I'm not sure what rod222 wants but this should be another way to achieve something similar. Tick the Whole words checkbox and use this in Name:

Code: Select all

ultramar /types=jpg

(Actually I will add a /w switch so we can add Whole words to the search pattern.)

[highend]

He uses Edit - Quick Search... (at least that's the only explanation for what he "describes")^^

[rod222]

The status bar shows "x out of y items" on the left side.
Thanks Ralph,
alas, I cannot see it ?

[rod222]

Aha. Maybe you can explain what exactly doesn't work?

Sorry, completely out of my depth here, there was no result, text reads something like 200,000 images viewed, no matches.

[rod222]

I'm not sure what rod222 wants but this should be another way to achieve something similar. Tick the Whole words checkbox and use this in Name:

I'll give that a try, after / if finding the boxes you describe
Thank you admin.

[rod222]

Houston.... we have touchdown.
I cannot believe how easy that was, thanks admin
CTRL F,
name
whole words
done
Now I can get to work, using XYPlorer every day.............

I spent 30 minutes getting out of the F3 pane (being ignorant is a real test of perseverance)
hint : just hit F3 again
Sigh