File wildcard*

[ustk]

I thought this was working before, but it might be me...

I'm trying to find files like "MyFilexxx.txt" using "MyFile*.txt" wildcard to get start+end of the file but it doesn't work...
Normal behaviour or mistake is mine?

[Casey Kolb]

@ustk I struggled with this too. The regex seemed busted last time I tried.

[d.healey]

@ustk Mistake is yours. You need to remove the .txt after the * and filter for that separately in a loop. Or perhaps use regex.

[ustk]

@Casey-Kolb @d-healey thanks! It's for a FileSystem.browse so I'm not sure a loop is possible.
Thought I could spend the rest of my life far from regex, perhaps a pint in my hand, rockin' back n forth, but things are what they are… :)

[d.healey]

@ustk You might find this helpful - https://regex101.com/

[Christoph Hart]

AFAIK the file wildcard isn‘t proper regex but a OS specifix syntax that is similar to what you would use in a terminal command.

[ustk]

@d-healey Yeah thanks I already tried to learn, it is not that hard, I just don't like those regex :)

Well, so something weird happens, because I can only match the extension with *

If I have this file MyFile_123.txt , the only thing that works is for the end of the name => *.txt (or *txt)

• MyFile* or MyFile_123* don't work
• *123.txt or *MyFile_123.txt don't even work

In short, everything that is before the dot isn't working

FileSystem.browse(FileSystem.Desktop, false, "MyFile*", doSomething); // doesn't give access to MyFile_123.txt

@Christoph-Hart I'm pretty sure back in the days we could at least match the start of the name and not just the extension

[d.healey]

@ustk It is the standard for most (if not all) file browsers that they show files based on extension. Open any app like a word processor or image editor, when you go to save/open it will filter by extension.

[ustk]

@d-healey You're certainly right then, I really thought I have filtered from the start of the name before but I'm mistaken ;)

[d.healey]

A little more info from the JUCE documentation

filePatternsAllowed: a set of file patterns to specify which files can be selected - each pattern should be separated by a comma or semi-colon, e.g. "" or ".jpg;.gif". The native MacOS file browser only supports wildcard that specify extensions, so ".jpg" is OK but "myfilename*" will not work. An empty string means that all files are allowed

[ustk]

@d-healey You’ve hit it right on the nose mate! Thanks for checking ;)