FileSeek RSS: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207 FileSeek RSS: Regular Expression search time Thu, 07 May 2026 12:07:25 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207 RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#9 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:56:32 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#9 FileSeek Awesome, glad to hear it! ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#8 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:49:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#8 FileSeek Doing the Regex the way you suggested works fine. It goes through all of the files quickly which is the goal.

Thanks,
Paul ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#7 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:49:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#7 FileSeek Close, you need to quote the whole query and then escape the quotes inside, like this:

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-q "\"cmd://Main/%1\" \"cmd://Form/%1\" \"cmd://View/%1\"" -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start


Alternatively, I talked to one of our devs, and he recommended a RegEx statement that should work a lot faster than the one you were using. You would run it like this:

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-r "cmd:.*?OpenDialog"  -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start


Hope that helps! ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#6 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:02:56 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#6 FileSeek How would I do that if I was using a command line version? Here is the snippet of the batch file I use. The compare string is passed into the batch file as a parameter:

-q "cmd: + %1" -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start

Are you saying that this would work:

-q "cmd://Main/%1" "cmd://Form/%1" "cmd://View/%1" -o c:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Lookup,csv -start

Thanks,
Paul ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#5 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:57:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#5 FileSeek There sure is a way to do an OR! Just separate each search term by a space, like so:

"cmd://Main/OpenDialog" "cmd://Form/OpenDialog" "cmd://View/OpenDialog"

We'll check into that RegEx query too, to see if there's anything we can do to improve the speed.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#4 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:51:59 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#4 FileSeek As a follow-up to this, assuming that the Regex search cannot be sped up, is there a way to perform an "OR" type of query? If I could do that, then I could provide the possible things that could be between the "cmd:" and the "text", like:
"cmd://Main/OpenDialog" or "cmd://Form/OpenDialog" or "cmd://View/OpenDialog"

Thanks,
Paul ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#3 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:45:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#3 FileSeek If I perform this query, ".*cmd:.*text" it takes forever to do the file search. By forever, I mean nothing changes on the screen.

Conversely, doing a standard query of: "cmd: + text" goes very fast, but the end results some times isn't what I want because "cmd:" might appear on one line of the file and "text" appears on another line. I want to know when both pieces of text appear on the same line with the "cmd:" occurring first. The Regex expression would produce those results, but it takes way too long to process.

Paul ]]> RE: Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#2 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:16:57 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207#2 FileSeek Would you be able to share the RegEx expression that you're using for the search? I'd like to test it out here to see if we can reproduce the same results.

Thanks! ]]> Regular Expression search time https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:07:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/regular-expression-search-time/?ID=bf61dcd7-bafc-49b8-b98e-ed60adc26207 FileSeek Does anyone know how to speed up the regular expression search? If I do a simple text search irt is very fast. But as soon as I do a regular expression search it slows to a totally unacceptable level for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks in advance,
Paul ]]>