FileSeek RSS: What's the secret to using regex's?

FileSeek RSS: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3 FileSeek RSS: What's the secret to using regex's? Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:29:29 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3 RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#22 Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:18:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#22 FileSeek This issue should be all fixed up in FileSeek 6.3 as well

Thanks! ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#21 Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:16:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#21 FileSeek We don't have a bug bounty program, no. We do appreciate the bug reports though! ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#20 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 22:17:10 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#20 FileSeek So I've found 3 issues - blank tabs, scrambled buttons, and this one. Do you guys have any sort of "bug bounty"? ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#19 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:45:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#19 FileSeek Not totally a bug, but definitely something we can improve. When that setting is enabled, it wraps the Query text in quotes. We'll just need to make it so that the setting is ignored if the mode is set to regex

On the FileSeek Settings > Troubleshooting tab, change the Logging drop-down to "L1: Log Minimal" and click Apply
Try the regex search
Click the "Export Info to File" button on the Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Reply with the file attached
Disable debug logging after sending the log

]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#13 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:22:33 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#13 FileSeek Any epiphanies yet, Keith? ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#12 Sat, 23 Nov 2019 01:33:02 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#12 FileSeek Ok, I'm absolutely stumped on this. Even with this file, I still get results when doing a regex query. Let me sleep on this over the weekend and hopefully I'll have another idea on Monday. ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#11 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:03:42 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#11 FileSeek You bet ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#10 Fri, 22 Nov 2019 20:39:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#10 FileSeek Could you attach the sample file you used for those screenshots? Maybe there's something strange with the encoding that I'm not seeing here with my test files. ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#9 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:20:07 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#9 FileSeek Here are the screen shots ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#8 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:41:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#8 FileSeek You're not missing anything that I can see. I've attached two screenshots below of the Search and Advanced tabs from my simple regex search.

Could you try yours again and send me screenshots of the Search and Advanced tab? ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#7 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:27:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#7 FileSeek No difference.
I'm not missing something simple like quotes around the regex or something, am I?
How about posting a screen shot of a working regex search? I might see something obvious ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#6 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:26:50 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#6 FileSeek Does it make any difference if "Process file contents using file handlers" is enabled or disabled when you're doing the search? ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#5 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:04:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#5 FileSeek No luck, searching a simple text file with the above regex yields the same results.
This is happening on at least 2 of the PCs I use, so it's not weirdness associated with 1 machine. ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#4 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:49:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#4 FileSeek Ah ok, gotcha! It is strange that it's not working. If you put some text in a new text file and try a simple regex on that one, does it return any results? ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#3 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:28:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#3 FileSeek I wanted to use the simplest regex I could think of, that's all. I've tried others and have never gotten any matches. ]]> RE: What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#2 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:54:30 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3#2 FileSeek Is there a reason you're wanting to use RegEx instead of Text Query for a search like that? Usually when searching for just a word, you'd use Text Query, RegEx is intended for more complex pattern matching.

To answer your initial question though, I'm not sure why it's not working when setting it to RegEx on your machine. If I do a similar search on mine, I get the same results as when using Text Query. ]]> What's the secret to using regex's? https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:51:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/whats-the-secret-to-using-regexs/?ID=b6a95425-f2be-4d57-a1ec-ee234b6105b3 FileSeek I have yet to get any results doing a "Query is RegEx" search. In fact if I use the same non-regex string with both options I get the expected results for "Query is Text Query" but no results for "Query is RegEx". I've attached screen shots for both along with the "Advanced" settings tab and application-level "Search" settings.

What am I missing

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