Filtering FIle Types

[Peter Haworth]

Thew new syntax for the filter command (don;t recall which version it was
introduced but it works in 6.6.2) lets you filter with a regular
expression, so the following will do it in one filter command, no need to
repeat for each line:

filter lines of tFiles with regex pattern ".*\.jpg|png"

Just replace the "jpg|png" with a list of the file types you are looking
for separated by the "|" character

Pete
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:28 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:

> I have not tried it yet but if it works
> the problem is I might want to use
> a variety of file types so the repeat
> would filter one line at a time and
> then you check for that type in the
> list of types you will allow.
>
> The way you provided would need it
> to allow a list of types or I would need
> to keep filtering so there might be a
> faster way but I am not sure.
>
> Thank you for the reply and code advice.
>
> John Balgenorth
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think you can use the filter command with a wildcard and your
> extension.
> > Put your folder path into tMyFolderPath then:
> >
> > set the folder to tMyFolderPath
> > put the files into theFiles
> > filter theFiles with "*.jpg"
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
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