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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, please!

*R* -> R somewhere in the name.
R*  -> R in the beginning of the name.
*R  -> R at the end of the name.

R*1005M*1* are 1005M (0402) sized resistors with different values starting with 1
1, 10, 100, 1.2, 12, 120, 15. ...  [k|M]Ohms as i.e.:

R-1005M-1R0 (1Ohm)
R-1005M-103 (10kOhm)
R-1005M-184 (180kOhm)

Optionally an SQL LIKE "%" Symbol could be nice to be used optionally as a wildcard.
See: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_wildcards.asp
Because... in the long term, we propably want to put everything into a database anyway. ;-)

Regards,

Clemens

On 2017-03-14 16:57, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, the footprint filter strings in a component match a footprint
> if they occur *anywhere* in the footprint's name. This leads to some
> possibly unintentional matches - for example, "R" has a filter "R_*",
> which matches literally every footprint with R_ somewhere in its name.
> This is quite a lot of footprints that are NOT resistors.
> 
> What if I changed this to require matching at the beginning of the
> string? A filter meant to match anywhere in the string could be written
> "*R_*" instead. This should significantly reduce the number of false
> positive matches.
>