https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235 FileSeek RSS: Wildcard for single character and/or use input file with search patterns Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:16:35 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/wildcard-for-single-character-andor-use-input-file-with-search-patterns/?ID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235#2 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:44:08 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/wildcard-for-single-character-andor-use-input-file-with-search-patterns/?ID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235#2 FileSeek Just responded to your email about this. This can be done using a RegEx search. Once we come up with the RegEx pattern that works for you, I'll post it here in case others are wondering the same thing as well ]]> https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/wildcard-for-single-character-andor-use-input-file-with-search-patterns/?ID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:22:21 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/wildcard-for-single-character-andor-use-input-file-with-search-patterns/?ID=96f6ba5e-fcf8-4823-b9c8-0dc91388c235 FileSeek We frequently have to search for a large amount of 10 digit id's in files.
For example:
003212213
003212313
003212223
003212300

If we could use wildcards for a single character (like ?) it would make it easier to search for 003212? ? ? without space, but that creates a smiley) and find all numbers. So it searches for 9 digit names/numbers only in this case.

Or even better would be to use an input file with search patterns (thousands of 10 digit numbers), so it uses each line in the input file as a search pattern. Would it be possible to have this in a feature release or do you have other suggestions?
(like fileseek /qf input.txt) - qf for query file ]]>