Serch for "numbers"?

[Tino Salskov Larsen]

I have a long txt file with filnames.
I need to search for files which names are fx.
summer1.2019.21.11
summer2.2019.21.11
summer3.2019.21.11

What do I need to use instead of ‘?’ ,so I can search for summer?.2019 and get every filename, when they have a different number somewhere in the name…

[Alan Kilborn]

@Tino-Salskov-Larsen

How about summer\d\.2019 ?

[Tino Salskov Larsen]

@Alan-Kilborn does not work… :-(

[Ekopalypse]

@Tino-Salskov-Larsen

did you check regular expression in find dialog?

[Tino Salskov Larsen]

@Ekopalypse yes…

[Ekopalypse]

then either your real data must look different to the one you posted
or your cursor is at a position which doesn’t have such filenames afterwards.

Note, in regex there is a hugh difference between summer1… and summer11…

[Tino Salskov Larsen]

@Ekopalypse Sorry, it work with summer etc… but my files name are HH2009D.2019 or. HH2001D.2019 - so I need the “wildcard” \d\ before the letter d… can that be an issue??

[Ekopalypse]

Yes, of course, Alans regex can be described as

search for summer
followed by one digit (\d)
followed by a literal dot (\.)
followed by 2019

which doesn’t find

HH
followed by digits (all of them or only the last one?)
followed by D
followed by a literal dot (\.)
followed by 2019

[Tino Salskov Larsen]

@Ekopalypse I can see if I use HH200\DD\.2019 it works… :-) Thank you…

[Ekopalypse]

@Tino-Salskov-Larsen

Attention, \D and \d are different.
\d is a digit
\D is not a digit

More about regex and its syntax can be seen here.

[Alan Kilborn]

What the heck!