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| Guest | Search for files with parenthesis in name How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering (2) gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, while there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to escape them but no luck. -- Erik Wikström |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name Erik Wikström wrote: > How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering > (2) gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, > while there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the > parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to > escape them but no luck. > > -- > Erik Wikström What about enclosing the search in quotes, like "(2)"? Does that work? Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name On 2007-02-25 16:09, Malke wrote: > Erik Wikström wrote: >> How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering >> (2) gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, >> while there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the >> parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to >> escape them but no luck. >> >> -- >> Erik Wikström > > What about enclosing the search in quotes, like "(2)"? Does that work? Nope -- Erik Wikström |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name If there are spaces around those, add them withing the quotes. Works for me! " (2) " Bob "Erik Wikström" <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com> wrote in message news:OGUx8fNWHHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering (2) > gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, while > there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the > parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to > escape them but no luck. > > -- > Erik Wikström |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name On 2007-02-26 11:52, Bob Hallsworth wrote: > "Erik Wikström" <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com> wrote in message > news:OGUx8fNWHHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering (2) >> gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, while >> there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the >> parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to >> escape them but no luck. > > If there are spaces around those, add them withing the quotes. Works > for me! > " (2) " Nope, no such luck, but for some reason the number of files found was about halved. -- Erik Wikström |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name Use XYplorer (or some other good explorer replacement) for searching and say bye-bye to such problems. |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name It's crazy not to allow people to search for the parentheses. The problem arose for me as a result of two failed file transfers. In both cases, the new files were renamed with a (1) or (2) suffix. So I have thousands of these extraneous files on my computer to get rid of. Or I could clean the hard disk and do another file transfer, but it would be far simpler if I could simply delete all files with a (1) or (2) suffix. Oh, and I just tried installing XYplorer on my computer (solely to deal with this issue). The program crashed. |
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| Guest | Re: Search for files with parenthesis in name Finally found out the way: In the Search box, type: name:~"*(2)*" -- Good Luck, Keith Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] "Erik Wikström" <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com> wrote in message news:OGUx8fNWHHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > How do I search for files who's name contains a parenthesis? Entering (2) > gives me all files containing 2 (which are a couple of houndred, while > there should only be two or three with (2) in the name) since the > parentheses have a special meaning when searching. Ive tried to use \ to > escape them but no luck. > > -- > Erik Wikström |
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