Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch

Summary by Speravir

Question for wildcards answered, at least questioner was satisfied (thanked in background).

Mystyc1 (talkcontribs)

Is the * treated like a wildcard or like a regex operator? If it's a wildcard, then does it represent one character, a group of characters, a word, or something else? Maybe this isn't the right article to answer such questions, but if it is, then it is remarkably bad.  

I suspect the latter because I have not been able to find a link in the article that would direct me to a more appropriate page.

Speravir (talkcontribs)

See help page, section Words, phrases, and modifiers:

The last words give a hint that there are regex searches possible in which the * has a different meaning. “Covered later” refers to the according section.

This sentence from section for insource searches should be noted, as well:

(You can find all of this by searching for wildcard on the help page.)