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Name-based searches
File Buddy offers a wide variety of options for using names in searches. Some options, such as contains use a single text string. Others, such as contains/doesn't start require more than one text string. The name text box expands to allow multiple lines of text when appropriate. The text box’s help tag is updated whenever the name option changes and will explain how the text in the text box will be used for that option.

In addition to the normal text matching options, File Buddy offers the following addtional options:
Name Matches Regexp
The text in the name text box is used as pattern for PCRE regular expression matching.
Name Does Not Match Regexp
The text in the name text box is used as pattern for PCRE regular expression matching, but items whose names result in a match are not returned.
The name text box’s contextual menu contains several predefined regexp searches. Load any one of them by choosing it from the menu. Press the Option key while the menu is open to view the regular expressions they use.
Length of Name is Greater Than
The text must be a number between 1 and 254. Items whose names contain this many or fewer characters will not be returned. The most common case would be to search for items whose names contain more than 31 characters because such names can cause problems in versions of the Mac OS prior to Mac OS X.
Case sensitive
By default, searches are not case sensitive. If you only want a name to be considered a match when the case matches, check this box.
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