show only files with english character?

[yusef88]

how to do that?

[admin]

Interesting question. It is actually possible now through a scripted search, but it would be quite some work and not be very fast.

Why do you need this?

[Marco]

Something with regexmatches and VF comes to my mind: that would be fast but
- could be limited by the max number of single items the VF code can handle
- would need to be applied every time you change location

Please define "English characters".

[yusef88]

in the list, files have same type ,their names: some are arabic and the other is english and i need to jump quickly to the english ones

[yusef88]

@ Marco
it would be an appropriate solution
English characters="abc"

[Marco]

And what about "def...z"? And punctuation? Diacritics? Maybe numbers too?

[yusef88]

I really appreciate If you wrote all of the letters from A to Z,numbers and punctuation

[Enternal]

I'm don't have an XYplorer installation on this computer right now but does Visual Filters support any sort of Regular Expression? It could be possible to simply use >[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+ (something like that. Not very good at using RegEx) for the Regular Expression and that should display all files that have those in their names... or something like that.

[Marco]

in the list, files have same type ,their names: some are arabic and the other is english and i need to jump quickly to the english ones

Ok, this VF should exclude every item containing at least one character of the Arabic alphabet, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet

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!>[غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع]

Many thanks to Enternal for pointing out that VF support regex, didn't think of that at first.

[yusef88]

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!>[غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع]

very good, thanks Marco if i want show these letters only? (important question to me)
what should I put instead "!>" to keep arabic letters?
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found the answer

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"Arabic" >[ذضصثقفغعهخحجدطكمنتالبيسشئءؤرلاىةوزظآأإ]

[Marco]

Glad that it helped
Actually, I realize that my solution isn't logically equivalent to your original question, because
"showing only the files with English letters" is not the same as "not showing the files with at least one Arabic letter" - but this is truly nitpicking.
Question: are this

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غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع

and this

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ذضصثقفغعهخحجدطكمنتالبيسشئءؤرلاىةوزظآأإ

exactly the same lists, apart from the additional space(s) in the first one? I ask because then my first regex isn't 100% correct, because it also excludes items containing a space in the name (I'm not familiar with Arabic ligatures!).

[admin]

Maybe it would be enough to test for the Right-to-left mark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark)?

[Marco]

No. See yourself - no RtL mark.

Immagine.png

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  #  char	  dec   hex  utf8  	utf8hex

  1   أ  	 1571   623   Ø£  	D8 A3  	
  2   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
  3   ب  	 1576   628   ب  	D8 A8  	
  4   ْ  	 1618   652   Ù’  	D9 00 19 20  	
  5   ج  	 1580   62C   ج  	D8 AC  	
  6   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
  7   د  	 1583   62F   د  	D8 AF  	
  8   ِ  	 1616   650   ِ  	D9 90  	
  9   ي  	 1610   64A   ÙŠ  	D9 00 60 01  	
 10   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
 11   ّ  	 1617   651   Ù‘  	D9 00 18 20  	
 12   ة  	 1577   629   Ø©  	D8 A9  	
 13      	   32    20       	20  	
 14   ع  	 1593   639   ع  	D8 B9  	
 15   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
 16   ر  	 1585   631   ر  	D8 B1  	
 17   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
 18   ب  	 1576   628   ب  	D8 A8  	
 19   ِ  	 1616   650   ِ  	D9 90  	
 20   ي  	 1610   64A   ÙŠ  	D9 00 60 01  	
 21   َ  	 1614   64E   ÙŽ  	D9 00 7D 01  	
 22   ّ  	 1617   651   Ù‘  	D9 00 18 20  	
 23   ة  	 1577   629   Ø©  	D8 A9  	
 24      	   32    20       	20  	
 25   L  	   76    4C    L  	4C  	
 26   o  	  111    6F    o  	6F  	
 27   r  	  114    72    r  	72  	
 28   e  	  101    65    e  	65  	
 29   m  	  109    6D    m  	6D  	
 30      	   32    20       	20  	
 31   i  	  105    69    i  	69  	
 32   p  	  112    70    p  	70  	
 33   s  	  115    73    s  	73  	
 34   u  	  117    75    u  	75  	
 35   m  	  109    6D    m  	6D  	
 36   .  	   46    2E    .  	2E  	
 37   t  	  116    74    t  	74  	
 38   x  	  120    78    x  	78  	
 39   t  	  116    74    t  	74  	

[yusef88]

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غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع

and this

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ذضصثقفغعهخحجدطكمنتالبيسشئءؤرلاىةوزظآأإ

exactly they are same lists, apart from the additional space(s) in the first one? I ask because then my first regex isn't 100% correct, because it also excludes items containing a space in the name (I'm not familiar with Arabic ligatures!).

almost they are same without spaces and not excluding items containing a space in the name
شكرا جزيلا صديقي ماركو

[Marco]

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