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<title id="titleGuideReferencePCRE">Perl Compatible Regular Expressions</title>
<para>
The Filename and Comment sections on the search window use
<ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expressions">Perl Compatible Regular Expressions</ulink>
. In general use there are a number of differences to the wildcard expansion used on the command line:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>Use "." and not "?" for a single character.</listitem>
<listitem>Use "abc.*ghk" and not "abc*ghk" for multiple characters</listitem>
<listitem>Use "\." to represent the dot in a file extension</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
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