A character used in certain commands that represents any character, or set of characters.
Wildcards are characters that can represent several or any characters. Often used during searches, wildcards are often "*" or "?." For example, a search for individuals living in Missouri that was searched by "Miss*" where the * represents any other characters after the "Miss" would yield a search result of those individuals in Missouri and Mississippi.
A special character used to represent one or more characters in a search term, e.g. # or ?.
A metacharacter used to represent a range of ordinary characters. Examples include the shell's use of * and ?.
When specifying an operating system directory to search or a KB file to load or merge, use a wildcard, or reserved character, to signify one or more other characters in a specified directory name and/or filename. G2 uses wildcard characters and conventions that are independent of the operating systems of the platforms on which G2 runs.
In a keyword search, a symbol may sometimes be inserted in the middle of a search term to retrieve words containing any character in the designated position. The wildcard symbol may vary from one type of search software to the next. See also truncation and Boolean searching. Example: In some databases, the keywords search wom+n (or wom?n) will retrieve records containing both "woman" and "women."
A symbol that allows the user to perform unrestricted find routines in Windows OS.
A wildcard represents one or more characters in a search term. In the search engine, the two valid wildcards are the question mark (?), which matches any single character, and the asterisk (*), which matches any number of characters within a search term.
A character string that is used in text searches to make finding a match easier. An asterisk (*) usually means find any character or set of characters.
Wild cards are used in search ing for information by application program s and operating system s in file s or documents. Often the asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard and it represents any character you like. For example if you are looking through a list of names of Countries and you want only those containing the letter 'X' then you would search for '*X*' which denotes any letter(s) before the X and any letter(s) after. This would find both Luxembourg and Mexico.
A character that represents one or more characters. The question mark (?) wildcard can be used to represent any single character, and the asterisk (*) wildcard can be used to represent any character or group of characters that might match that position in other filenames.
A special character that is not interpreted literally, but is used to match other characters in strings. Perforce wildcards are `*', which matches anything except a slash; `...', which matches any string including slashes, and `', which is used for parametric substitution in views.
a character or a group of characters that specify a criterion the database should follow to find records
a character that matches one or more unknown characters
a character that represent one or more other characters
a character that serves as a placeholder for some other text
a character which stands for any letter and may be used to replace characters within and at the end of words
a placeholder for a letter or letters in an individual word
a placeholder in which you provide one or more characters
a place holder, signifying any character(s) can satisfy the search condition
a special character that can be substituted by something else
a special character that can stand for either a single character or a string of text
a special character that denotes that all characters in a specific list should be checked
a special character that stand in for other text
a special character that substitutes for a range of values
a special character used in programming to include everything in your selection
a special character you can use to replace one or more characters in a word
a special kind of particle which matches element and attribute information items dependent on their namespace name, independently of their local names
a symbol that has a special meaning when used within a search field
a symbol that represents a group of unknown search criteria
a symbol that represents one or more unspecified characters, used in searching text and in selecting multiple files or directories
a symbol that stands for one or more unspecified number of characters in a query
a symbol that takes the place of an unknown character or set of characters
a symbol that will match one or more letters or words within a word or phrase
a system whereby you can enter a partial place name followed by an asterix and this will search the database to help you find what you are looking for
a way to allow the search engine to substitute a letter or series of letters for a special character
A character that stands in for another character or group of characters. Most search tools use an asterisk for this function. Although a wildcard is most often used in truncation, it can also be used in the middle of words (for example, wom*n).
A character, usually an asterisk (*), that you use alone to specify all files and directories that are available, or with a few other letters to specify a group of files and directories that have a common element in their names. For example, to specify all files and directories that begin with the letters "ch," you would type: ch
a metacharacter that can be used in place of other characters or words in filename arguments. The asterisk (*) and question mark (?) are wildcards.
A special character such as *, $, or ? that can replace any character or characters in a string. Wildcards are used in catalog searches to extend a search term. See Truncation.
A character (usually an asterisk) which represents other characters in a search query.
A symbol which can be used as a substitute for one (or zero) chacters when searching on a database. Very useful for retrieving plurals, or for when you are unsure of the spelling, or when you know there are variations in spelling. For example, on Humanities Index the wildcard symbol is ? e.g. ?nquiry will retrieve inquiry and enquiry
a special symbol at the end of a word when entering a database search term to retrieve all possible endings of that word. Frequently used symbols for truncation include the asterisk (*), or the question mark (?). Altavista uses , for example legisla* would find records containing legislation, legislative, legislature.
a character used in keyword searching which can assume the value of any alphanumeric character and so permit more options, such as alternative spellings, to be achieved quickly.
A symbol used in electronic searching to represent any character. Wildcards can usually be used at the end of a word or within a word to search for all forms of the word. Check the help screens of a particular database to determine the appropriate symbol to use. (Unit 4 A Primer on Databases and Catalogs)
A wildcard is something like ? or * which is used to stand for 'anything.' For example, in UNIX, if you wanted to delete all 50 text files in a directory, file1.txt, file2.txt, etc, it would take way too long to type rm file#.txt one at a time. A wild card could be used, such as: rm *.txt. That means "Remove anything.txt, which is every text file in the directory."
Zetoc uses an asterisk, which can only be used at the end of a word, e.g. medic* finds medical, medicinal, medicine, etc.
In WebDB, the percent (%) character, which is used to mean any single character or a contiguous set of characters within a word or phase.
The '*' and '?' characters are used as wildcard characters and can represent anything. The '*' represents any number of characters, including no characters. The '?' represents exactly one character. Wildcards are often used in regular expressions.
A special character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that can be used to represent one or more characters. Any character or set of characters can replace a pattern-matching character. Synonymous with global character, wildcard character.
In DNS, a character that can be substituted for another character during a query.
A special character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that you can use to represent one or more characters. Any character or set of characters can replace a pattern matching character. (Back to the top)
A symbol that represents a character or series of characters. In DOS and Windows the asterisk (*) can represent a letter or combination of letters. This is useful in performing file and text searches.
A symbol that stands for one or more unspecified character
A special symbol that stands for one or more characters. Many operating systems and applications support wildcards for identifying files and directories. This enables you to select multiple files with a single specification. For example, in DOS and Windows, the asterisk (*) is a wild card that stands for any combination of letters.
Means of specifying filename(s) where the operating system determines some of the characters. Multiple files may match and will be available to the tool.
A special character used to represent one or more characters in a search term. FirstSearch recognizes two wildcards. The pound sign (#) represents a single character and the question mark (?), alone or with a number, represents zero or more characters. Wildcards can only be used after the third character of a term. See also truncation (*).
wildcard character A character which stands for any other letter or letters in a search expression. A wildcard allows a search by keyword to match many related words. Wildcard characters vary between systems but most commonly the * stands for any number of letters and the ? stands for one letter. For example, swim* will match swim, swims, swimmer, swimmers, swimming, swimmingly etc sw?m will match swim and swam but not swims
a character that stands for another character or a group of characters in a search. Most search tools use an asterisk as a wildcard
Like the joker in a deck of playing cards, a wildcard is used in a computer search. Usually a wildcard is represented by and *. For instance go* means that the search will find every word that starts with go and ends with anything, such as go, going, got, golf, etc. You have to be careful using wildcards in searches or you'll end up finding a lot of things you weren't looking for. You usually use a wildcard if you don't have the subject of your search narrowed down yet.
A search term that ends with a "?" or some other symbol. The characters preceding the symbol are often a stem or truncation that can have multiple endings. All terms beginning with that stem will be found in the same search. to top
a special character that represents an unknown letter. To use a wildcard, enter a search term and replace each unknown character with the designated character. It is best to consult the help guide for each database to determine which character to use. For example, typing the term "ne?t" finds neat, nest or next.
Perforce uses three wildcards for pattern matching: " * ", " ... ", and "%d". Any number and combination of these can be used in a single string: * matches anything except slashes; matches only within a single directory. ... matches anything including slashes; matches across multiple directories. is used for parametric substitution in views. Matches strings similarly to the * wildcard, but can be used to rearrange the order of the matched substrings.
A wilcard is used in a pattern. "*" matches with any string, and "?" matches with any single character.
A special character which acts as a substitute for one or more characters in a file name or extension. See also: path
(1) A character used to mean 'any one character' or 'a contiguous set of characters' within a word or phase. See also internal character masking. (2) A powerful concept for performing a query to match certain requirements precisely. The two wildcards available, the underscore _ and the percentage symbol %, may be placed in a character string to enable you to select specific values for the parameters in a report or query. The term 'fuzzy' matching is often used to include this and other searching mechanisms.
A character (usually * or ?) that can stand for one or more unknown characters during a search.
Wildcards are used in the middle of a word to find variants of terms. Each database its own symbol for indicating a wildcard, but it is most frequently a question mark, "?". Example: Wom?n would find articles containing the word women or woman.
This is a character that stands in for another character or group of characters. In most search tools, it is an asterisk . While the wildcard is most often used in truncation, it can also be used in the middle of words (i.e., wom*n).
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A character that can be subsituted for one or more characters in a web search, much like the blank tile in Scrabble.
A special character, typically the asterisk (*) which can be used in some advanced queries to find matches of one or more versions of a word. Examples: theat* would find both theater and theatre; disease* would find both disease and diseases
A symbol that enables multiple matching values to be returned based on a shared feature. The script language has two wildcards: the question mark (?) and the asterisk (*). The question mark stands for any single character, and the asterisk stands for any character string of any length. For example, the file specification *.* would return all files, regardless of their file names; the file specification *.sc? would return all files having a three-character extension beginning with sc (such as compusrv.scr, compusrv.scx, and so on).
A search specification where certain characters may have multiple values. The question mark ? often matches any character, so S?T would match SET, SAT, SIT, S-T, etc. The asterisk * is the other common wildcard character, referring to zero or more characters. As well as the values shown for question mark, S*T would match SOFT, ST, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTT, etc.
Wild Card is Terence Trent D'Arby's fifth album, first released in 2001 on his own independent record label, Sananda Records.
Wildcard is a self-released EP by Pennywise. It was originally released in 1989 as a 7" release and again in 1992, on the compilation album A Word from the Wise/Wildcard, along with the first EP A Word from the Wise.