Selecting items with double spaces - how?

[Papoulka]

In scripting I'm trying to select all list pane items that have two spaces / blanks in their name. For example in the following list (where 'b' stands for a space):

• DATAb1.txt
  DATAbb2.txt
  DATAb3.txt

I want only the file "DATAbb2.txt" to be selected.

However, neither of these work:

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sel "  ";
selfilter "  ";

The first selects no files; the second selects all files.

So I have two questions. (1) how can I do this and (2) shouldn't selfilter (at least) achieve this i.e. is there a bug?

[SkyFrontier]

Selection filter (default: ctrl+m):

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>[\s]{2,}

(it's a regex selection)

[Papoulka]

But I want to do this in a script and then operate on those selected items. In the Help, at least, neither SEL, SELECTITEMS, nor SELFILTER have any regex option. So where would I use your pattern? Is this done in SELFILTER?

Thanks for any help.

And I still wonder: shouldn't SELFILTER "bb" do what I want? If not, why not i.e. how would I know this shouldn't work?

[bdeshi]

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  selfilter "*  *";                           //selects two-consecutive-spaces-in-name items
  text get('SelectedItemsPathNames', <crlf>); //an operation on selected items, lists all of them

<edit>
btw, only selfilter can select multiple items by pattern.
sel selects ONE item and optionally a number of CONSECUTIVE items before or after,
and selectitems selects by |-separated FULL names or paths.
</edit>

[SkyFrontier]

Or this?

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   $a = <<<#
c:\test\soft\xy\_Titlebar Template_02.txt
c:\test\soft\xy\_TitlebarTemplate_  _01.txt
c:\test\soft\xy\_TitlebarTemplate_   01.txt
c:\test\soft\xy\_TitlebarTemplate.txt
#;
   $b = regexmatches("$a", "^.*?\b( {2,})\b.*$", "<crlf>");

   text $b;

'$a' can be filled by using get(selecteditemspathnames), alternatively (more in line with what I guess is what you want). Or a (recursive?) folderreport().

[highend]

To use a precise match (it won't output entries with more than two spaces in a row):

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$b = regexmatches($a, "^.*?\b {2}\b.*$", "<crlf>");

[Papoulka]

Sammay - thank you for showing

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selfilter "*  *"

I would never have figured this out from the Help on selfilter. Is there a further reference on patterns like this that I'm missing?

SkyFrontier & Highend - thanks for the info. Can you tell me how to in general select list pane files using a regex? I'm sure this can be done but can't think of any direct way.

[admin]

I see this (first post) as a bug. Fix comes.

[highend]

Can you tell me how to in general select list pane files using a regex?

There is no direct way to do this. You have to use e.g. listfolder() and a regexmatch() afterwards.