How to search partial text?

[Anonymous_Banned275]

In QtCreator editor - is there a way to search for partial text ?
for example "test*" to get " test plus anything ".

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Simply searching for 'test' will also find 'test plus anything'.

[J.Hilk]

@AnneRanch by clicking on the icon in the search bar on the left hand side, you can enable regex search. Doesn't get more universal/powerful than that

[JonB]

@AnneRanch
It depends precisely what you mean by " test plus anything ".

As @Christian-Ehrlicher said, if you really mean test plus anything, including nothing (i.e. at end of line), you might as well just search for test like that, doesn't matter whether regular expression or not.

If your test* is supposed to be a regular expression, be aware that this does not search for test necessarily. It would search for tes followed by any number of ts, 0 or more. This pattern would be right if you are wanting to access a filename from a terminal/command prompt, but that is not a regular expression, as used in the Creator text editor or others.

The equivalent as a regular expression would be test.*. Note the "dot"/"period", meaning any character. But then you might just as well search for plain test.

If you wanted test followed by something (i.e. not at end of line), that would be test.+. That is a "plus" instead of a "star".

If you stipulate exactly what you want to match/not match there are other constructs in regular expressions which may do precisely what you want (e.g. you can search for just a "word" of test, or start of a word, or a non-word, or others).