Filter out any file with certain 4 characters at the start?

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drivingherethere
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Filter out any file with certain 4 characters at the start?

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Hello everyone, can someone please help me filter out any file that has numbers in its first 3 characters and the 4th character is a space? Below example means any file except for "50a picture.jpg" should be filtered out because the third character in its file name is not a number.

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921 song.mp3
50a picture.jpg
214 animation.gif
void
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Re: Filter out any file with certain 4 characters at the start?

Post by void »

Please try the following search:

regex:"^\d\d\d "

regex: = enable regular expressions.
^ = match the start of the filename.
\d = match a single digit (0-9)
Use double quotes to escape the space



If you want to exclude these files, use the NOT operator: !

!regex:"^\d\d\d "
drivingherethere
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Re: Filter out any file with certain 4 characters at the start?

Post by drivingherethere »

Thank you so much
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