filenames search with more specific inquire (full words)

[abc550]

Is there any option to find (in any search mode) all files, which includes some full words?

E.g search inquire cow*girl* in standard search mode currently returns:
cow eats my girl.doc
and
cowS eat my girlfriend.txt
and
cowgirls songs.mp3

Is it possible to exclude all variants except the first one?

Thanks!

[TheQwerty]

Doesn't a standard search for "cow girl" with match Whole Words enabled achieve this?

[abc550]

Doesn't a standard search for "cow girl" with match Whole Words enabled achieve this?

It's not quite the same: standard search mode without wildcards disregards the order of the elements of a serch inquire. So the inquie "cow girl" with match Whole Words enabled will return e.g. girl eats a cow. But the order is important: I need to find only items which start with the word "cow".

[admin]

Some RegExp will do... let's hear what the experts have to say...

[highend]

A standard regex for this could look like:

\bcow\b.*\bgirl\b

[abc550]

A standard regex for this could look like:
\bcow\b.*\bgirl\b

Seems, that is just the same as the sample "cow girl" with match Whole Words enabled in standard mode (see previous posts in this topic). The both ignore the sequence of the words. This sample will find the both "cow eats a girl.txt" and "a girl eats a cow.txt".
Furthermore, it would be nice to have an option to find only those items, where the first word of the search query does match with the first word of the filename.

[highend]

Before I posted that regex I tried it...

These are the files in my testfolder:

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a cow eats a girl.txt
a girl eats a cow.txt
cow eats a girl.txt
cowgirls songs.mp3
cowS eat my girlfriend.txt

Regex:

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\bcow\b.*\bgirl\b

Finds 2 files:

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a cow eats a girl.txt
cow eats a girl.txt

"a girl eats a cow.txt" is NOT found...

And if you want to find these two words with cow at the beginning of the line use:

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^\bcow\b.*\bgirl\b

Used for the same 5 files, it will only find:

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cow eats a girl.txt

Afaik that's what you wanted...

[abc550]

Before I posted that regex I tried it...
Afaik that's what you wanted...

My apologies! I've tested your regexp with a wrong files set. Actually the both your regexps work exactly as I needed.
Many thanks!