Notepad++ Find in Files Filters

Question

When using Notepad++ Find in Files feature is there a way to adjust the filter, so that it will search more than one filetype (e.g. *.c and *.h)?

score 163 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 19 '13 at 15:48

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Separate multiple filters with a semi-colon (;).

*.txt ; *.log

Or you can just use a space

*.txt *.log

edited Jan 19 '13 at 15:48

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answered Dec 17 '09 at 15:19

Beaner

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Is there any way to negate a wildcard? ex: *.vb but not *.Designer.vb? – QuickDanger Oct 11 '17 at 19:44
This is the standard open file dialog. I don't believe there is any negation. The best you can do is to carefully craft a filter that doesn't match the file you don't want. Maybe all files that have a letter or letter combination that prevents your file from showing, `*a*.vb`? or a file name length that doesn't match the length of the file you don't want, `?????.vb`? – Beaner Oct 11 '17 at 23:01
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@QuickDanger yes, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/59419084/428724 – wezten Mar 29 '22 at 12:42

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