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OK - Dunno if this is a dopus question or a Windows question.

I was a long time Amiga user, and pattern matching on the Amiga was incredible.

All I want to do on DO is make an exclude filter.

eg. I would type {pattern}.jpg

and jpgs would be ignored.

So I need to know what goes in {pattern} to do this.

All the resources I've looked at only mention * & ?, which are both inclusion patterns.

Cheers

2

~(*.jpg) is what you want.

3

Thanks - y'know that even crossed my mind but I didn't test it :slight_smile:

4

If you want to know the full details, there's a handy appendix at the back of the manual which lists all of the pattern matching symbols. Also a separate appendix covering regular expressions.

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Ahh - thanks - I did look in the manual first but didn't check the appendix. I'll know better in future.