Extracting files from a folder based on criteria in a file

[4run]

Dear colleagues,

I am new to the forum and have started using Xy. I want to be able to select certain named pdf files from a folder based on the first name of the file which would be in a list that I can nopy to clipboard/put on text file or excel.

I am hoping the gods out there can explain this for me. I have high hopes in being able to do this as it will save me my job.

[highend]

There is not really much information about the file names so...

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    $names = regexmatches("<clipboard><crlf>", "^.*?(?=\s)", "|");
    foreach($item, listfolder("<curpath>", "*.pdf", 5), "|") {
        $firstPart = regexreplace($item, "(^.*?(?=\s)).*", "$1");
        foreach($name, $names, "|") {
            if ($name LikeI $firstPart) {
                selectitems $item, , , "a";
            }
        }
    }
    

Go into the folder that contains the .pdf files.
Copy the list of names into the clipboard (each name must be on it's own line!)
Execute this script.

It _should_ select the necessary files.

The delimiter between the first and the second part of a filename has to be a space / tab.

And yes, coded in a hurry^^