How to find folders with a certain word and not a connected part

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

I need to single out all folders than have just

info

anywhere in them as a word i.e. disregard all that have e.g.

information

or

install-info

nor

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959492.info.52348527

How can I do this?

[void]

ww:info

ww: = whole words



-or-



Enable Match Whole Words from the Search menu and search for:

info



-or-



regex:\binfo\b

regex: = enable regular expressions

\b = word boundary

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Neither of these methods seem to work, because I am still being shown for example folders

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addon@ytdownloader.info
https+++www.youtube.com^partitionkey=%28https%2cskladchik.info%29
Sound Blaster X4 INFO_files

[void]

space breaks only? -no punctuation?

Please try the following:

folder:regex:"(\s|^)info(\s|$)"

folder: = folders only.
\s = space.
| = OR.
^ = start of filename.
$ = end of filename.

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

[...]
folder:regex:"(\s|^)info(\s|$)"
[...]

This seems to work i.e. those three folders are no longer shown to me


Thus such question arises: how should Match Whole Words work, both through

Main Menu > Search > Match Whole Words

and CTRL+F shortcut? Is it not working how it should just for me [and I need to change some setting] or did I just gave you examples that need to be accounted for [i.e. an update is needed]?

[void]

The standard is to treat spaces and punctuation as word breaks.

Everything treats spaces and punctuation as word breaks.
The only non-standard character Everything treats as a word break is an underscore: _



Everything will treat info in the following as a word:

959492.info.52348527

The dots (.) are punctuation.
info is surrounded by punctuation so it is treated as a word.



Use regex if you need more control for word matching.



Main Menu > Search > Match Whole Words
and
Ctrl + F > Match Whole Words
will work the same way. (treat spaces and punctuation as word breaks)

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Maybe my train of thought is wrong here but as there already exists option

Main Menu > Search > Ignore Punctuation

then one might think that only after selecting it the option

Main Menu > Search > Match Whole Words

would result with e.g.

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959492.info.52348527

being found when plain

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info

is entered in the Search Edit box. But if this is the standard approach [to treat not only spaces but also punctuation signs as word breaks] then I would suggest adding of a new option named something like

Main Menu > Search > Match Whole Words Without Any Additions

which would eliminate from results all cases when the searched for word has any sign adjacent to it, including the

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_

sign - but with exception of all kinds of white spaces. But then again: if such option will be entitled Without Any then it would imply also lack of spaces- thus some other / better description would be needed for what I am proposing

And then there is of course the issue of the "real" dot that is separating filenames from their extensions

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Do you void have any thoughts about that last input from me?

[void]

Everything treats spaces and punctuation as word breaks.

I will consider an option to match words with space breaks only.
Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, use regex: for more control, for example:

folder:regex:stem:"(\s|^)info(\s|$)"

Use stem: to match the name without the extension.



Consider adding the following filter from Search -> Add to filters:
Name: Match Whole Words Without Any Additions
Search: #[REPLACETERMS:$param:,"regex:stem:(\s|^)#[REGEXESCAPE:#TERM:#]:(\s|$)"#]:

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Everything treats spaces and punctuation as word breaks.

I will consider an option to match words with space breaks only.

I sure wil be looking forward to it. Because this

Consider adding the following filter from Search -> Add to filters:
Name: Match Whole Words Without Any Additions
Search: #[REPLACETERMS:$param:,"regex:stem:(\s|^)#[REGEXESCAPE:#TERM:#]:(\s|$)"#]:

does work - but is yet another Filter workaround that I will have to remember that I have and for what reason exactly / remember to use it when once more I will discover that the Search options do "not" work. And of course it is impossible to use this Filter with some other one at the same time - to which a workaround would be of course to make it available in my Everything also in form as a Bookmark. But then again: this would be extending the amount of additional workarounds; plus a Bookmark is less convenient than a Filter as it clutters Search Edit when picked