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I have problems with file search using regular expressions.
Of course I activated the "regular expression" checkbox.

1. regular expression in filename
for example search ^abc to find all files starting with abc => works as expected!

2. search for file contents
for example search for file content ^class to find all files with lines starting with class => 0 results, but I'm sure that there are files with lines that start with class.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

I suppose that 'class' isn't a regular expression for a FreeCommander. Try to uncheck the box and search again.

cisus wrote: 26.01.2022, 12:37 I suppose that 'class' isn't a regular expression for a FreeCommander. Try to uncheck the box and search again.

Sorry, but that will not help, because I need to find all files with lines that start with "class". There are too many files that contain "class" at some other position.

Oh, sorry, I was wrong. Haven't you found another solution?

No solution so far.

Other regular expressions like abc.*xyz work,
but ^ and $ (for beginning/end of line) do not.

I'm using "FreeCommander XE 2022 Build 860 32-bit public".