Regular expressions
Use the Wildcard (RegExp) field in the File tab to search for files by wildcard in the form of a regular expression. Regular expressions are more sophisticated than using *
and ?
wildcards. This table describes several examples of regular expressions.
File Name
Regular Expression
Files Selected
/dirA/
.userdata.\.txt
Find all files in /dirA/
with names containing userdata and ending with .txt
/dirB/
AAA.\*
Find all files in /dirB/
with names that start with AAA
/dirC/
\[ENG:A-Z\]\[ENG:0-9\].\*
Find all files in /dirC/
with names that start with a capital and followed by a digit (A0-Z9)
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