# Filter limit characters

**URL:** <https://resource.dopus.com/t/filter-limit-characters/40131>\
**Category:** Help & Support\
**Created:** [December 21, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filter-limit-characters/40131 "2021-12-21T14:57:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![fcarter](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@fcarter](https://resource.dopus.com/u/fcarter)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filter-limit-characters/40131/1 "2021-12-21T14:58:00Z")

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I usually press the \* key to open the filter toolbar and do some operations, i found that it only admits 30.000 characters at once, is there any advanced setting to increase this limit or perhaps disable it completely?

My query strings are the likes of `(abc|xgs'(gs')gs|lgdw)` and get truncated when they reach the limit, thus becoming invalid, having to manually redo the initial string into two queries.

Thanks for reading!

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/filter-limit-characters/40131/2 "2021-12-21T15:04:04Z")

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Pasting almost 30KB of data as a wildcard seems unusual. Maybe there’s a better way, e.g. using a script to decide which names to select. Depends where that huge pattern comes from, but to be that large it is presumably being generated by some code or a data table somewhere? If so, that logic could be placed in a script.

You could also use the advanced filter control (Edit \> Select Pattern \> Advanced) to split the pattern into multiple clauses.