Include and exclude expressions

This topic describes wildcards and examples of standard expressions that you can use to include or exclude files during the synchronization.

Example: If your project contains a project of your own that you compile, and the compiled sources and executables are in your own folder called debug, you can use the filter *\debug. This ensures that your compiled sources and executables do not get synchronized and avoids the necessity to ignore these files each time a synchronization runs.

You can use the following wildcard characters in include/exclude expressions:

*	Matches any number of characters.
?	Matches any single character.
\|	Used to join or concatenate multiple expressions.
\	Used as the separator for folders regardless of whether the files are on a Widows or UNIX platform.

The following table provides examples of exclude expressions.

Expression	Description
`build\bar.obj\|build\bar.exe`	Explicitly excludes both bar.obj and bar.exe files in the folder build.
`.obj\|.exe`	Excludes all files with .obj and .exe extensions.
`build\.obj\|build\.exe`	Excludes files with .obj and .exe extensions in the folder build.
`build\logs`	Excludes files in the build\logs folder.