Is this REGEX correct? Or can it be better?

[net123]

I would like to avoid extracting certain types of files from my report that end in .cab, .dll, .pl, and so on. I have the following:

REGEX[*\.(cab|bin|pl|dll)$]
[/red]
Will this do the job or am I missing something.

Thank you in advance.

 

[MikeLacey]

Surprisingly it's usually more efficient to check for things separately instead of using the | operator. There's a FAQ on it here at TT

Mike

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[mikevh]

Also, you need ".*", not just "*". The asterisk is a quantifier meaning "zero or more" of the preceding
character or expression. It doesn't mean "any string of characters" as it does in shell or DOS.