Obsidian File Info Panel Plugin Regex Setting Tool

This page is for the Obsidian plugin, "File Info Panel", available here: https://github.com/CattailNu/obsidian-file-info-panel-plugin. The plugin (in addition to other file statistics) has a word frequency report that can be separated into 2 lists using regular expressions (regex). This page has simple examples of how to write the necessary regex setting and will build the expression for you to match a list of words.

Build a Regex

This default list is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English.

Enter Comma Separated Words
a, about, after, all, also, an, and, any, as, at, back, be, because, but, by, can, come, could, day, do, even, first, for, from, get, give, go, good, have, he, her, him, his, how, i, if, in, into, it, its, just, know, like, look, make, me, most, my, new, no, not, now, of, on, one, only, or, other, our, out, over, people, say, see, she, so, some, take, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, think, this, time, to, two, up, us, use, want, way, we, well, what, when, which, who, will, with, work, would, year, you, your

File Plugin Regex
(\ba\b)|\(\babout\b)|\(\bafter\b)|\(\ball\b)|\(\balso\b)|\(\ban\b)|\(\band\b)|\(\bany\b)|\(\bas\b)|\(\bat\b)|\(\bback\b)|\(\bbe\b)|\(\bbecause\b)|\(\bbut\b)|\(\bby\b)|\(\bcan\b)|\(\bcome\b)|\(\bcould\b)|\(\bday\b)|\(\bdo\b)|\(\beven\b)|\(\bfirst\b)|\(\bfor\b)|\(\bfrom\b)|\(\bget\b)|\(\bgive\b)|\(\bgo\b)|\(\bgood\b)|\(\bhave\b)|\(\bhe\b)|\(\bher\b)|\(\bhim\b)|\(\bhis\b)|\(\bhow\b)|\(\bi\b)|\(\bif\b)|\(\bin\b)|\(\binto\b)|\(\bit\b)|\(\bits\b)|\(\bjust\b)|\(\bknow\b)|\(\blike\b)|\(\blook\b)|\(\bmake\b)|\(\bme\b)|\(\bmost\b)|\(\bmy\b)|\(\bnew\b)|\(\bno\b)|\(\bnot\b)|\(\bnow\b)|\(\bof\b)|\(\bon\b)|\(\bone\b)|\(\bonly\b)|\(\bor\b)|\(\bother\b)|\(\bour\b)|\(\bout\b)|\(\bover\b)|\(\bpeople\b)|\(\bsay\b)|\(\bsee\b)|\(\bshe\b)|\(\bso\b)|\(\bsome\b)|\(\btake\b)|\(\bthan\b)|\(\bthat\b)|\(\bthe\b)|\(\btheir\b)|\(\bthem\b)|\(\bthen\b)|\(\bthere\b)|\(\bthese\b)|\(\bthey\b)|\(\bthink\b)|\(\bthis\b)|\(\btime\b)|\(\bto\b)|\(\btwo\b)|\(\bup\b)|\(\bus\b)|\(\buse\b)|\(\bwant\b)|\(\bway\b)|\(\bwe\b)|\(\bwell\b)|\(\bwhat\b)|\(\bwhen\b)|\(\bwhich\b)|\(\bwho\b)|\(\bwill\b)|\(\bwith\b)|\(\bwork\b)|\(\bwould\b)|\(\byear\b)|\(\byou\b)|\(\byour\b)

Copy Regex

How the Filter Works

• Filter Operation

The filter works on a lowercase list of works in your document with the symbols removed.
Example: Your document contains: "The cat ate a mushroom."
File Plugin Data:


• a
• ate
• cat
• mushroom
• the
• Match Whole Word

Use "\b" for the word boundary.
Example: Match the word "cook".
File Plugin Regex: (\bcook\b)

• Match Beginning of Word

Match the start of a word:
Example: Match words that start with "the": "there", "their", "theater". "(.)*" means any character(s) 0 or more times.
File Plugin Regex: (\bthe(.)*\b)

• Match End of Word

Match the end of a word:
Example: Match words that end in "st": "best", "most", "last", "mast".
File Plugin Regex: ((.)*st\b)

• Match Multiple Words

Match multiple words.
Example: Match "the" or "boat". "|" means "or".
File Plugin Regex: (\bthe\b)|(\bboat\b)