Rich,

> The “name extension” does not include the period, so omit that.

[Assume standard rage against file-name extensions has been expressed 
here.]

The full-stop is, strictly speaking, the delimiter character between 
the file name string and the file name extension string.

In day-to-day use, however, and at least in the software-centric 
technical circles I work in, the noun phrase ‘filename extension’ 
means the characters after the full-stop **and** the full stop.

That is, people talk about `.zip` files and `.md` files and `.json` 
files, and `.ts`  and `.c` files. And they pronounce the full-stop (as 
‘dot’) when speaking. And they write the full-stop as per the 
examples above.

Which is a linguistic argument, at least, for ‘Name extension’ to 
treat

.string

and

string

as equivalent.

> You also have turned [o]n “Search compressed files” (behind the Options 
> button), which enables searching in Zip archives.

Here was the magic (and entirely obvious in retrospect) checkbox I’d 
overlooked.

Many thanks for this.

Regards,

― bforte.
-- 
Brian Forte
<[email protected]>

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