Exclude search results by string

[alexandernst]

I'd like to be able to filter search results (ctrl + shift + f) by text (bonus points if I can apply multiple filters).
Currently I can filter the results by files/folders (paths), but there is no way to filter by text.

For example, let's say that I have multiple files containing one or more of the following strings:

foo.bar.xyz
foo.bar.abc
foo.bar.ijk
foo.bar.qwe
foo.bar.poi

I'd like to be able to search .bar and exclude bar.xyz, which would give me all lines in all files that contain foo.bar.abc, foo.bar.ijk, foo.bar.qwe and foo.bar.poi.

This would be the same as running grep ".bar" | grep -v "foo.bar".

PD: I know this particular example could be workaround-ed using regex search, but regex search just isn't easy to do on a large/complex strings, or with multiple exclusion rules (grep ".bar" | grep -v "foo.bar" | grep -v "foo.abc")

[andreamah]

We likely wouldn't make new UI elements for this type of advanced search. Once the FindTextInFiles API is finalized, I would prefer that this gets contributed via extension. #59924