When finding files,how to input the file extensions myself

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when I am searching some files ,I want to typing the file extensions myself instead of choosing the file type from the existing list.

How am I supposed to do?

Thanks in advance.

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2

You can use wildcards for this, e.g. to match .txt and .vbs files you would use *.(txt|vbs)

3

Thank you.Your method is effective.But I still suggest DO let users input file extensions themselves.Because the list is too long to find your desire file type.

4

As I said, you can do that using the filename field with wildcards. What's the point of a separate field which would do effectively the same thing?

5

OK.Your point view is absolutely right,and I have another question to ask.How to set the name matching to partial matching so that avoiding inputting a lot of asterisks(*) as wildcards？

Thanks for your help and you are really warmhearted.

6

The Simple find tab does partial matching by default. In fact, you can't turn partial matching off except by using the Advanced tab.

7

I know what you mean.But when I type the searching string with wilecards,seemingly it becomes whole-words matching and on longer partial -matching.So i have to add a lot of asterisk between the finding words.

8

Not sure what you mean. Could you give us an example of what you're typing in and what you're expecting to happen?