Regex: searching for partial words

My font contains onesuperior, twosuperior, etc, and oneinferior, twoinferior, etc.

When I search glyphs without using regex, I can type superior and all the glyphs containing the word superior are returned. I’d like to find both superior and inferior glyphs at the same time, so I tick regex and type superior|inferior. Nothing is returned, though my (granted, limited) understanding of regex is that partials should work in this context.

Thanks for any help.

Currently, I believe the regex part inside Glyphs assumes a default start and end surrounding your pattern. So, you might want something like this:

.+(inf|sup)erior.*

I’m assuming there’s an implied ^ at the beginning and a $ at the end. That says to match one or more characters followed by either inf or sup followed by erior and zero or more characters after that. fyi.

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This is so helpful, thank you! Worked perfectly.