Getting EXACTLY matching hits?

[terrypin]

I'm looking for files named out.txt. Ideally I'd like nothing else. But I'll settle for all those starting with 'out.txt', like 'out.txt.lnk' etc, as I can then find my targets visually easily enough.

But what I'm getting are hundreds of results like this:
about.txt
BootEtc-ExtractFromInsideOut.txt
BoysNightOut.txt
Constant Out txt
etc

I'm using the recently installed Version 1.3.1.636b, with none of the defaults changed.

Any advice would be much appreciated please. I'm fairly sure this wan't happening in the previous version?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[void]

Please try whole file name matching:

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wfn:out.txt

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wholefilename:out.txt

You can also use whole word matching:

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ww:out.txt

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wholeword:out.txt

You can also toggle this from the search menu, by checking match whole word.

[terrypin]

Thanks, really appreciate that fast response.

wfn:out.txt works a treat.

If you'll excuse a follow-up; suppose I wanted all files starting with 'abc', not just exactly 'abc', I can do that with Regex using
^abc
But without Regex?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[void]

You can find files and folders that start with a term by using wildcards.

For example, to find files starting with abc:

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abc*

Using wildcards will always match the whole file name (or the whole full path and file name if match path is enabled).

Wildcard reference:
* = match zero or more characters.
? = match a single character.
*.* = *
*. = no extension.

[terrypin]

Thanks, I'll experiment with those to cement my learning. Despite having had this great tool installed for ages, haven't really used more than its bog standard features until now.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK