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How to perform a query search with Dropbox API 2?
Hey guys, I am creating a "login" system, which is not really a login system, but an environment for the students to access their files in their own respective folder and avoid manipulation of the sa...
cristpol95 Здравко is correct; the Dropbox API search functionality does not support regex or wildcard functionality, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
Hi cristpol95,
It's easy, just don't assume the method you're using works with regular expressions (unfortunately). 🤷 Where did you read this? 🧐 In general it's good idea not to assume anything if not explicitly written somewhere. 😉 In your situation you're looking for file or folder named exactly as your query string or the query string is part either of the file/folder name or file content. Is there such thing? That's why you got empty list (not 0 by the way). There is no way to turn search to regular expression mode - it's unsupported. Let's hope such support will be added at some point.
Hope this clarifies matter.
But are you not able to perform a folder search just how you can find a file in Windows lets say, where I specify a path and what I want to search?
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