How to search for filenames with wildcards AND trailing spaces?

[juzzle]

I am a bit puzzled by this chanllenge.

Consider these files:

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House front 123.jpg
Houseboat 456.jpg
Housers 789.jpg

From the above I only want to find filenames starting with "House" followed by a space, ie:

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House front 123.jpg

I've tried "House *" (noting the space), but it doesn't seem to honour the space
I've tried the Whole Words option, but still finds all the above

I see mention of "Ignore Punctuation" in old threads, but I want include punctuation.

What am I doing wrong?

[void]

Sounds like you have regex enabled.

Please try disabling regex from the Search menu and please try searching for:
"House *"


With regex enabled, "house *" means house following by any number of spaces.

Regex

[juzzle]

Thanks for the quick reply! But no, Regex is disabled.

I should also point out that I am using pipes to separate multiple criteria, eg

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House *|Farm *|Car *  

(noting again the space after the word)

[void]

OR operations are done first, please try quoting or < > grouping, please try searching for:

"house *"|"farm *"|"car *"
-or-
<House *>|<Farm *>|<Car *>

Without grouping or quotes, Everything is seeing this query as: House AND (* OR Farm) AND (* OR Car) AND *

Alternatively, change your operator precedence to AND > OR:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Search tab on the left.
• Change Operator precedence to AND > OR.
• Click OK.
• Search for: House *|Farm *|Car *

[juzzle]

Curiously, the "<" grouping method did not work, however, the double quotes method worked a treat!

Thank you so much

[void]

The < > grouping method will not match the space.

Use double quotes to match spaces.

[juzzle]

Thanks again

[raccoon]

Maybe worth noting here, the OR priority can be changed in settings. I personally prefer the AND priority grouping as it seems more intuitive.

Tools > Options > General > Search > Operator precedence: "AND > OR"