Notepad++ find in files filter EXCLUDE

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reidLinden picture reidLinden · Nov 16, 2010 · Viewed 55.2k times · Source

I'm looking for a way to get n++'s find in files dialog to exclude certain files...

the only reference I've found so far is this http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=536795&group_id=189927 , but, unfortunately, it doesn't work.

I'm using *[^*.dll] to, I think, search for everything BUT dll files.

How can I resolve this ?

Thanks

Answer

n00b picture n00b · Dec 20, 2019

Note, as of December 5th, 2019, Notepad++ 7.8.2 now supports exclude filters.

For example to exclude exe, zip and jar files, your 'find in files' filter will look like this;

*.* !*.exe !*.zip !*.jar

Relevant code change here.

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