Regex in Search bar?

Henk_de_Vlaam

Just to be sure before posting an IR:
Is it possible to use regular expr. in the search bar?

patrick_farley

+1

MBartlett21

Which search bar are you meaning?

Henk_de_Vlaam

@MBartlett21, 

I mean the main search bar on top of the Onshape screen, right of the Onshape logo.

Example: search all objects with ".drw" at the end of the name.
At this moment the result is, all objects that contain ".drw" anywhere in the object name, so also when it is in the middle of that name. Normally one can use "*.drw", but in OS the '*' has no function.

MBartlett21

Ok, Can you create an Improvement request?

Henk_de_Vlaam

OK, here it is:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/11127/regex-in-search-bar/p1?new=1

Henk_de_Vlaam

Henk_de_V said:

OK, here it is:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/11127/regex-in-search-bar/p1?new=1

The correct link is: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/11376/regex-in-search-bar.
Edit 20190321: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/51523/#Comment_51523.

john_rousseau

Do you need regular expressions or will globbing (? and *) be sufficient?

Henk_de_Vlaam

@john_rousseau,

Globbing will  make searching a lot better and will suffice for most cases, but with regex you will have all the search functionality without limitation.
However, I realize that most users will not use regex. So to start with, everyone will already be happy with globbing.