Filtering expression for e-mails with date in their names [SOLVED]

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

I need to find all EML files that start with dates in format

YYYYMMDD

. And that is precisely

YYYYMMDD

and not

YYYY MM DD

or

YY_MM_DD

nor any other variant

I suck at this, so can anyone help me? Filtering out file format will not be a problem, but looking for the right / right amount of digits sure is problematic for me

[therube]

Are you looking for a regex: ?
As a start, maybe something like: regex:(19|20)\d\d[01][1-9][0-31]\w

(There could be some false "dates" with that.)

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Yes, I am looking for a regular expression

The above works, but does not limit itself to the beginning of name- it needs to take into consideration only the first 8 characters

[therube]

Add a ^:

regex:^(19|20)\d\d[01][1-9][0-31]\w

[Thy Grand Voidinesss]

Thank you. It was not perfect. as it did not single out all of the files with very long names / repeating sections with igits, but I managed to pin point them using also other methods


And later on I managed to find also all files starting with the date and time format

YYYY MM DD - HH.MM.SS

using this

Code: Select all

regex:^(\d{4})\s(\d{2})\s(\d{2})\s-\s(\d{2})\.(\d{2})\.(\d{2})