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New Feature - Search Your Videos

Advance search capabilities now available in List View

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Written by Beby Barrantes
Updated over 2 months ago

We're excited to announce an Advanced Search Functionality as a new enhancement to your video library's list view!

This new capability is focused on searching the names of your videos (aka Video Titles), thus making it simpler than ever to quickly and easily find the video you want.

How To Use Search

  • Switch to List View, enter the search text, and press Enter to start the search.

  • A 'Loading...' icon will appear (next to pagination) to show search in progress

  • The results tally appears where the loading icon was, on page 1 of the pagination

  • To clear the search, clear the text box and hit enter

  • For help to use Advance Search (Regex), click the help button for details

Try the new search today to enjoy a more efficient way to manage your video collection.

Do Advance Searches Using Regular Expressions

Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful tool for searching and manipulating text in scripts. They allow you to define search patterns that match complex text structures making it easier to find specific strings or patterns.

Regular expressions utilize a variety of special characters that have specific meanings. Below is a summary of the most common special characters to use in your searches:

Character

Description

.

Any character (including newline)

[abcn-z]

Any of the characters a, b, c, n, o, p, ..., z

[^abcn-z]

Any characters except a, b, c, n, o, p, ..., z

\w

Any alphanumeric character (including accents) or underscore (_)

\l

Any lower-case character (including accents)

\u

Any upper-case character (including accents)

\d

Any numeric character

\s

A whitespace character

^xxx

xxx at the beginning of a line

xxx\r$

xxx at the end of a line. In UNICOM Intelligence Professional, you must use \r$ to find text at the end of a line instead of the more typical $

xxx|yyy

Either xxx or yyy

()

Grouping (subexpression)

x*

Zero or more occurrences of x

x+

One or more occurrences of x

x?

Zero or one occurrence of x

(xxx){m}

Exactly m occurrences of xxx

(xxx){m,n}

At least m and most n occurrences of xxx

\

The escape character that you use to match characters that have a special meaning in regular expressions, such as the following characters , . ? { } [ ] ( ) $ ^ *. For example, to match the { character, you would specify \{.

Here are some examples of regular expressions and matches:

Expression

Matches

abcd

The character sequence abcd anywhere in a line

^abcd

The character sequence abcd at the beginning of a line

^\sabcd

The character sequence abcd at the beginning of a line after zero or more spaces

abcd\r$

The character sequence abcd at the end of a line

.txt\r$

The character sequence .txt at the end of a line

[^A-Z]+

Any character that is not an uppercase English letter

[0-9]+\r$

Any digits in the range 0-9 that appear at the end of a line

^\$

A dollar sign at the beginning of a line

\[\]

If you have a text that contains [], using the regex \[\] will find that exact text.


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