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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