How to filter out searching inside directories that match a pattern? impossible?

[devlocal]

If I specify a source directory like: D:\dev\dir\repos\project\ how do I then avoid searching sub-directories within that path like directories that begin with a dot

For example, I want to avoid searching inside directories in the path that has this as matching part of the path: /.venv-

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I have tried setting up a filter (name does not match) using a regex: ./.venv-.

but it does not work. I have also tried a filter (Location does not match)

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I have tried all of these:

and location no match regex => ./.venv-.
and contains no match regex => ./.venv-.
and filter match & no match filter | regex: match ./.venv-.

[Leo]

How to filter items by location or sub-folder

Update/Note: Since this guide was written, the ability to filter by Full Path was added. You can now apply wildcards and regexps to each file's full path in one line. This is sometimes easier than separately testing the filename and the parent folde…

[devlocal]

I believe I have this working.

The filter line looks like the following

And | Location | No Match (use regular expression) .*\\.venv.*

escaping the backward sloping diagonal backslash