Use this dialog to add or edit a rule belonging to the currently active filter. A rule is a regular or a shell expression that matches the names of files and/or folders and either includes the matching file-system resources into the comparison it is applied to or excludes them from the field of interest of the analysis.
Control | Description |
Regular expression | Select this option if you want to base the rule on a regular expression. Otherwise, the rule will be treated as a shell expression thus matching any character in file and/or folder names for each '?' character in the rule and accepting any sequence of character in file and/or folder names for each '*' character in the rule. |
Rule | Enter the expression of the rule in accord with your selection of Regular expressions i.e. either a regular or a shell expression. Use the '?' character in the rule to match any character in file and/or folder names and the '*' character in the rule to accept any sequence of characters in file and/or folder names. |
Choose... | When not basing the rule on Regular expressions, have convenient access to pre-defined well-known shell expressions which can be combined into complex shell expressions simply by clicking the mouse buttons. |
Target | Select which file-system resources the rule will apply to - files, folders, or both |
Action | Choose either to include or exclude the matching files and/or folders from the comparison. |