2petermad
Confusion about Total Commander's Search for field is understandable. It's quite complex and the help text is not very clear. Here is my understanding of the feature.
There are 2 search modes:
Condition for search mode Description of search mode The Search for field does NOT contain a dot, wildcard or backslash Find filenames where part of the filename matches the entire Search for field.
Notes:
- Spaces and the pipe symbol have no special meaning and are interpreted literally.
So be careful with the number of spaces and leading and trailing spaces.
Searching for "test|crap" will not find a file named "test".
⠀- A double quote character at the beginning and an optional matching quote character are ignored.
So the following search terms have the same results:
Total Commander
"Total Commander"
"Total Com"mander
The Search for field DOES contain a dot, wildcard or backslash Find filenames where
⠀(a) the whole filename matches one of the expressions in the Search for field
or
⠀(b) the whole filename matches the entire Search for field (no character is interpreted as separator character and the entire Search for field is seen as 1 expression).
Notes:
- The space character is a separator character except when inside a quoted text.
- The backslash character and the pipe character have special meaning as explained in Help.
- When the Search for field contains a backslash or the pipe character, (b) is not done or gives no results.
Statistics: Posted by white — 2023-12-28, 01:53 UTC