How do I do a wildcard search inside Azure Storage Explorer

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I'm trying to do a search for *40075* inside azure folder search box, and was wondering how I can do a real wildcard search from the folder search box, and how.

Did you find a way to do this? – rollsch May 23 '20 at 05:40 — rollsch, May 23 '20 at 05:40

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '17 at 01:58

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Short answer, you can't. The "search" box is a prefix (starts-with) filter only.

answered Jun 08 '17 at 01:58

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And the long answer please? – Burgi Jun 08 '17 at 08:06
I guess the reason is because this type of search has better performance and less load for their servers. – Saeed Neamati Jan 16 '18 at 10:27

CaptainGenesisX · Answer 2 · 2022-09-13T12:40:15.523

This doesn't completely answer your question but it may help some folks including yourself. The Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer desktop application enables a little bit more flexibility, but NOT MUCH. Overall, this is disappointing and inconvenient. Doing a wildcard search is a pretty basic file explorer feature and Azure Storage is failing us by not allowing it. This is now 5 years after your post and we still can't do it.

How do I do a wildcard search inside Azure Storage Explorer

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