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Per Amundsen, 05/24/2018 10:05 AM

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h1. Wildcards
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Wildcard characters are special characters that are interpreted when comparing text.
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There are three meaningful wildcard characters:
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<notextile>? - matches a single character
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* - matches everything (including nothing)
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& - matches a whole word if used alone</notextile>
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For example the expression "t*s a *?t" matches the string "this is a text"
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If & is not used alone it matches the plain text '&' character
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"test &" matches "test this" or "test that"
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"test &his" matches only "test &his"
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"test thi&" matches only "test thi&"
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"test th&s" matches only "test th&s"