Trying to get familiar with regex and wildcards in XYplorer

[human_robot]

I have a few files that have a prefix I want to get rid of, prefix is like this "NEW__00**_" where the stars should be widlcards (any character).

I don't really get how regex works in XYplorer, I use it in Python all the time (but I'm clearly not a pro)

I've tried a few things in the Regex Rename tool but got no luck so far.

To me this should work but doesn't : "^NEW__00.*_" > ""

How would you do it?

Thank you

[highend]

A single! character is not represented via a .* in regex^^
It's a single dot...

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^NEW__00.._ > 

[human_robot]

Ok i was certain .* matched anything in regex... The more I dig into regex the more obscure it seems to me haha, thank you for your answer, it worked.

[highend]

Ofc it matches anything but from 0 times to infinite times

So at least a ** as a wildcard is pointless