The File Filter property in ListFile is a good example of this. The default is "[^\\.].*" which excludes anything that starts with '.'
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:02 PM Otto Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > What property are you setting specifically? > If it is one that supports regular expressions, I would expect this to > happen, since ‘.’ is _special_. > If that _is_ the case, then you need to escape a literal ‘.’, probably as ‘\.’ > > > > On March 14, 2019 at 11:46:10, Sven Davison ([email protected]) wrote: > > i've found our system picks up files that would normaly be considered > temporary/hidden files. files such as ".somename.txt" i've set the pickup > file filter to exclude those but to no avail. > > i added a route on attribute to route to bucketA if it starts with a "." and > everything else to another bucket.. also to no avail. HOWEVER.. if i change > that from a "." to something like "s" (for something.txt without the . at the > beginning), it works fine. > > has anyone experianced this issue? Is it a bug? I'm sure one of the first > things asked will be version and i cant tell you at the moment but i'm sure > it's not the most recent nor can i blindly hope that'll fix it. if it's > documented somewhere that these were bugs and are now fixed in version X.. > that's different.
