are special symbols that can be used to search for any number of significant characters. Similar to DOS wildcards.
Wildcards are special characters that are used as placeholders for other characters. A wildcard is used where another character(s) is expected but it is not known what that character(s) will be. MailRules recognises the two wildcards commonly used in Windows. The question mark character (?) is used to represent any single unknown character. For example: ma?h will match both "math" and "mash" and any other 4 character string starting with 'ma' and ending in 'h'. But, "mathematics" would not match, because the word is too long. The asterix character (*) is used to represent any number of unknown characters. For example: ma* will match math, matchbox or any other series of characters as long as the string starts with 'ma'. See Also Advanced Outbound Rule Alias Check Times Datasource Distribution List Exception Rule Inbound Rules ISP Mail Client MAPI Outbound Rule Rule Name SMTP/POP Working Folder
Symbols used to replace a letter within a keyword to broaden a database search. For example 'wom?n' will search for the words 'woman' and 'women'.
The wildcards for Tivoli Workload Scheduler are: ? Replaces one alpha character. % Replaces one numeric character. * Replaces zero or more alphanumeric characters. Wildcards are generally used to refine a search for one or more objects in the database. For example, if you want to display all workstations, you can enter the asterisk (*) wildcard. To get a listing of workstations site1 through site8, you can enter site%.
A symbol used when searching for files or data which represents all files; in DOS, UNIX and PC operating systems, the wild card character '?' will match any single character in this position. The wild card character "or" means match any number of any characters
A useful searching technique that is used to broaden a word search when searching an online index or database. Wildcard symbols can be used to replace letters in words to find all spelling variations of a word. Alternatively they can be added to a word stem to find all variants of a word. eg. pigment* will find pigment, pigments, pigmentation etc. organi*ation will find organisation and organization
Characters that represent several other characters, used for flexible searching. Example: if searched text is specified as "wi*" - editor can find "with" and "witch" words but not "which".
Characters in a quote symbol or Dos file name that indicates an undefined, but categorized, value.
Special characters such as * and ? that can stand in for other characters during text searches in some programs. The * wildcard generally means "match any number of characters in this spot," whereas the ? wildcard generally means "match any character in this spot."
