Bug 78598

Summary:	Allow use of Regular Expressions for file name when performing File Search
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Morten Hattesen <morten.hattesen>
Component:	Search	Assignee:	Platform-Search-Inbox <platform-search-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	daniel_megert, reto
Version:	3.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Morten Hattesen

2004-11-15 05:16:08 EST

When performing a Search/File... file search, it would be really useful to be 
able to use regular expressions for file name matching, to allow richer pattern 
matching than currently allowed (using * and ? wildcards).

It should be considered whether the pattern should match the filename.type 
only, or an option should be made to match using the entire path/name.type 
string, allowing files to be matched by combinations of path and filename/type.

Comment 1 Reto Bachmann-Gmuer

2006-02-07 08:29:04 EST

I often have files in directories created by and scripts which I'd like to exclude from searches. So it would be nice to have a way to say "ignore all file in a 'build' directory

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:15:45 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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