Having trouble figuring out the AssetDatabase.FindAssets search string

Hello!

As the title implies. I'm having trouble figuring out the AssetDatabase.FindAssets search string.
I have a bunch of assets with spaces in their names.
I need to search for a specific asset with the exact name given.
I keep getting assets that also contain the search string... how can I just get it to return an exact match!
I've spent a long time googling but I am guessing there's some syntax/search term I don't know about and Unity docs are very vague.

Code (CSharp):

1. string[] guids1 = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("\""+searchStringWithSpaces+"\"", new[] {"Assets/0_DM/DATA/Objects"});

I somehow figured out "\""+this.name+"\"" makes it see the string as one search item. How to return just an exact match.

Cheers for any help!

 

Here's the only insight I have: it APPEARS that this method essentially does what the search field does in your project.

This means you can search for

t:scene

and it will return all scenes.

I don't believe there is a way to "search exact" from that search window, which might imply there isn't a way to do it with this function.

 

Thanks Kurt, good to know. I'll process the paths and asset names returned to get what I need.

 

Here i just did it just match the names

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. T SearchItemInAssetdatabase<T>(string Name_, string Path_) where T : UnityEngine.Object
3.     {
4.         string[] guids2 = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("\"" + Name_ + "\"", new[] { Path_ });
5.         string GUIDTOPATH = "";
6.         for (int i = 0; i < guids2.Length; i++)
7.         {
8.             GUIDTOPATH = AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guids2[i]);
9.             if (GUIDTOPATH.Split('/')[GUIDTOPATH.Split('/').Length - 1] == Name_)
10.             {
11.                 break;
12.             }
13.         }
14.         Debug.Log(GUIDTOPATH);
15.         T ObjectFounded = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<T>(GUIDTOPATH);
16.         return ObjectFounded;
17.     }

 

It can be done like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. string fileName = "Settings.asset";
2. string searchFilter = $"glob:\"Assets/**/*{fileName}\"";
3. string[] guids = AssetDatabase.FindAssets(searchFilter);
4. string[] paths = guids.Select(AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath).ToArray();

 

AssetDatabase.FindAssets will find all objet that have "fileName" is their name, so your codedoes not work if you have "helloFile" and "helloFile2" it will find both