if I can't have regex (and I could understand the expense making it working *within* file content, but even just for file names it would have immense power), I would take a just a "begins with" operator, similar to ^ in regex, even if it only worked in the name-type (file name, path name etc, but not file-content) fields. So while searching for y in say the file name field returns all file names that contain a word that begins with y, searching for ^y would return all file names that begin with y (e.g. it would return a file named "yellow and blue" but not a file named "blue and yellow").
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