Selecting Exact Files: How?

[SkyFrontier]

1. do a dupe search;

2. on the results list, select first or non-first items then copy their full paths (ctrl+p).

How do i have them selected again, based off the clipboard (or a previously built list)?

selfilter() wont do (it's not meant to work with paths and selecting by base name will get duplicates either, which is not desired), nor selecitems() (it grabs all dupes either), nor Select Items... (ctrl+shift+m).

Bear in mind: exact files (minding full path) is the objective here.

[SkyFrontier]

no way?

[serendipity]

Selfilter will do it. You can choose which column to match from, in your case Path.
If you have already copied the paths to clipboard using File|To Clipboard|Item Paths then this script will work:

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  sel;//Unselect 
  foreach($item,"<clipboard>","<crlf>"){
    selfilter("""$item""",,"Path",1);
  }

The assumption is that you did dupe search and hence your search result will have exactly one path for each dupe item.

[SkyFrontier]

No, it won't.
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Variations like

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  sel;//Unselect
  foreach($item,"<clipboard>","<crlf>"){
    $item = getpathcomponent("$item", path);
    selfilter("""$item""", d,"Path",1);
  }

or

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  sel;//Unselect
  foreach($item,"<clipboard>","<crlf>"){
    $item = getpathcomponent("$item", path);
    selfilter("$item", d,"Path",1);
  }

or

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  sel;//Unselect
  foreach($item,"<clipboard>","<crlf>"){
    selfilter("$item",,"Path",1);
  }

are not working, either. Selfilter broken on this aspect? Can please anyone else check this?
Thanks, serendipity. The code does make sense.

[admin]

OK, this did not work indeed. It was not really a bug but a missing feature. The next beta will bring enhancements. Then the following will work:

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sel; //Unselect
  selectitems "<clipboard>", 2;

[SkyFrontier]

The more I use Select Items with Paper Folders, the more I miss a tick box to match exact paths there.