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abjoe
New Contributor II
8 years ago

File Poller: Get files without extension

Hi All, I am using a file poller snap. In the file filter, what should I give so that I get files with no extensions? So if I use *.txt I get text files. Similarly, to get files without any ...
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del
Contributor III
8 years ago

@abjoe, Just for practice, I played around with Directory Browser filter (which uses GLOB patterns like the File Poller Filter) and came up with a filter that works partially in my tests… I don’t know how reliable it will be for you, so tstack’s suggest is likely a better option.

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The two issues I found with this filter are

  • it requires all extensions to be exactly 3 characters (i.e. works with .txt but not .json)
  • it will not pull in non-extension filenames with a filename less than 4 characters long
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