“A wildcard character inside a word can be an (escaped) question mark \? for one character or an asterisk * character for zero or more characters.”
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“The two wildcard characters are the star and the (escaped) question mark, and both can come in the middle or end of a word. The escaped question mark \? stands for one character and the star * stands for any number of characters.”
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“The star * wildcard matches a string of letters and digits within a rendered word, but never the beginning character. One or more characters must precede the * character.
- When * matches numbers, a comma is considered part of one number, but the decimal point is considered a greyspace character, and will delimit two numbers.
- Inside an "exact phrase" * is treated as a greyspace character and not a wild card character, so it delimits words.
The \? wildcard represents one letter or number; *\? is also accepted, but \?* is not recognized.
The wildcards are for basic word, phrase, and insource searches, and may also be an alternative to (some) advanced regex searches (covered later).” |