Hi,
how do I search for "2017-" without receiving results like "2017" ?
Rt now although in quotes, its still pulling out any random similarity.
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Regards,
Frank
Specifying a search string for Windows search is very limited and at times downright obscure. You are better off using 3rd party tools.
I think in the case of - the problem may be that - is being treated as a word delimiter, but not as a special character.
For an eye-opener on one aspect see
https://superuser.com/questions/1725...-the-file-name
In general (and not complete, old) see
Advanced Query Syntax | Microsoft Docs
I prefer
Locate32 (free)
This, like other such tools such as Everything by void tools and Utrasearch, performs 'find-as-you-type' searches, potentially across all your disks, i.e. instantly (but not content search as does Windows search).
It supports Regex and Perl syntax. (I've no idea if the other two do in the same way).
Regular expressions in Perl - a summary with examples
and here the search is specified to start with the string at the start only:
from a set of files:
: regex follows
^ = at start of line
\w = any alphanumeric character a-z
Hey Dalchina, thanks for the comprehensive reply )
Since I'm helping out on other peoples computers I need a solution that's on-board of Win10. I tried Command Prompt, but the "FIND" command also is not able to make a search on exact part of a file name
Sorry, I think you're out of luck there on the basis of what you asked for originally, if you mean Windows search based only.
I have quoted some documents relevant to Windows search.
Elsewhere others frequently quote the free indexing tools, and they are frequently commended here.
search in file for exact phrase with special symbols [windows 8.1]
In fact, that was a surprise for me just now because I thought the default syntax for Name with no other specification would be "contains" (which would be Name:~=name.txt) but apparently it defaults to Name:~<name.txt which means "begins with" name.txt. In fact, from an efficiency point of view that is probably a logical default. But from a usability point of view it is terrible because it means that when users really want Name:name.txt to mean either "contains" or "ends with" they won't have a clue what to do to make those differences.
Ref:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ing-in-Windows
Last edited by dalchina; 22 Jul 2018 at 11:42.
You could experiment with findstr - maybe you have..
Search exact string in a file on Windows | Laur IVAN
hey das10 thanks, works fine ^-^
thank u dalchina 2
Frank,
In File explorer's search bar you can use
~"*2017-*"
It is the ~ that makes it an exact search & the pair of * that make it search all the way through rather than just at the start/end. You could confine it to just searching filenames by using
filename:~"*2017-*"
Denis
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