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	Wildcard character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In telecommunications, a wildcard character is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.
		Whether the wildcard character represents a single character or a string of characters must be specified.
		In many regular expression implementations, the period (.) is the wildcard character for a single character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wildcard_character (245 words)

	Definition: wildcard character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.
		Note 1: In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the wildcard character "?" may be substituted for any one of the 36 characters, "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9." Note 2: Whether the wildcard character represents a single character or a string of characters must be specified.
		In computer (software) technology, a character that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string.
	www.its.bldrdoc.gov /projects/devglossary/_wildcard_character.html (137 words)

	* Wildcard - (Computing): Definition
		Wildcards are useful when you want to find a file and only know part of its name.
		A keyboard character that can be used to represent one or many characters.
		The wildcard pre-shared key allows for a local router to authenticate remote peers using the pre-shared key, and not using the remote peer's IP address...
	en.mimi.hu /computing/wildcard.html (340 words)

	RTI
		Wildcard characters, however, can be matched with arbitrary fragments of the character string.
		To use a wildcard character as a literal character, enclose the wildcard character in brackets.
		To search for the percent sign as a character instead of as a wildcard character, the ESCAPE keyword and escape character must be provided.
	www.ruraltech.org /projects/image_archive/searchhelp.asp (489 words)

	Using Wildcard Characters in a Search Term
		As you vary the number and the position of wildcard characters in a single search term, you may notice a difference in the amount of time it takes for BRS to complete the search.
		However, if you specify wildcard characters at the beginning, at the end, and in the middle of the word, the search time will increase.
		You would want this character to be interpreted as a literal and not as wildcard character.
	www.spi.org /dmanual/d_wild2.htm (614 words)

	Wildcard character -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(A written symbol that is used to represent speech) character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.
		Whether the wildcard character represents a single character or a (A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)) string of characters must be specified.
		In (A machine for performing calculations automatically) computer (((computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory) software) technology, a wildcard character can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wildcard_character.htm (279 words)

	DOS Wildcards characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wildcards can be used with the DIR command, COPY command and the DEL command.
		Wildcards cannot be used with the TYPE command.
		‘’ is such a wildcard* character that replaces a set of characters, it depends on the position of the name where the ‘*’ is used.
	www.rootssoft.net /dos6.htm (230 words)

	WILDCARD Operator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Specifies one of any alphanumeric character, as in ?an, which locates "ran," "pan," "can," and "ban." Note that it is not necessary to specify the WILDCARD operator when you use the question mark.
		Specifies zero or more of any alphanumeric character, as in corp, which locates "corporate," "corporation," "corporal," and "corpulent." Note that it is not necessary to specify the WILDCARD* operator when you use the asterisk, and you should not use the asterisk to specify the first character of a wildcard string.
		If you want a wildcard character to be interpreted as a literal in a wildcard string, you must precede the character with a backslash.
	trisonline.bts.gov /help/spv00149.htm (551 words)

	Editor regular expressions
		Wildcard regular expressions are useful for selecting files, but they cannot search the text within files.
		As a single character is taken to be a literal regular expression matching only itself, this means that a character followed by an asterisk matches zero or more instances of itself.
		Note that this behavior is not the same as that of the asterisk wildcard character.
	osr507doc.sco.com /en/OSUserG/_Editor_regular_expressions.html (542 words)

	Validating with String Pattern Matching
		If a wildcard character is entered, the code tests the corresponding character in the string entry as to whether it meets the criterion for that particular character pattern.
		Example If the user enters the character "#" as the third character in the pattern string, this specifies that the third character in the entry string must be a digit (such as "8") for the character match to succeed.
		If the string character and the pattern character are not equivalent, the code displays a general character-mismatch error message.
	www.novell.com /documentation/extendas35/docs/help/books/TechStringPatternMatch.html (1075 words)

	STN Commands - Wildcard Characters
		Wildcard characters are symbols that represent undefined letters or numerals in a search term.
		Wildcard characters are also referred to as truncation symbols.
		Left truncation, using the three truncation characters at the front of a term, is also available in some fields in certain files.
	www.cas.org /training/stncommands/wildcards.html (211 words)

	Microsoft Office Assistance: Examples of using wildcard characters (ADP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Columns with the data type character can always be treated as text strings; those with the datetime data type can be treated as text strings.
		To search for characters that can be interpreted as wildcard characters, you can specify an escape character.
		Suppose you want to define the character "#" as an escape character, which allows you to include "#" in front of the "%" character that is meant literally.
	office.microsoft.com /da-dk/assistance/HP030839371033.aspx (584 words)

	Appendix F. Wildcard Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In some commands, you may substitute wildcard characters for certain parameters, or parts of parameters, in the list.
		The wildcard characters count toward the eight character limit for user, group, account, and file names.
		These wildcard characters are defined in Table F-1, “Table F-1.
	docs.hp.com /en/32650-90864/apf.html (164 words)

	SQL Reference LIKE Predicate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The wildcard character can appear at the beginning, middle, or end of the comparison value (or multiple combinations of these positions).
		Use one single-character substitution character for each character to be wild in the filter pattern For example, the statement below retrieves rows where the column value begins with "b" ends with "n", with one character of any value between.
		predicate, the character that follows the escape character is treated as a data character and not a wildcard character.
	www.thecandyjar.com /mynecorp/sql/like.htm (357 words)

	Search by Wildcard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The wildcard character can be used to narrow a search, controlling the number of documents returned in the Result Set page.
		Wildcards are valid for index fields with the data types Text, Time Stamp, SSN, Telephone, Zip Code, Boolean Choice, and User-defined List.
		The wildcard character should never be specified by itself in a field for searches.
	www.scusd.edu /wx/help/Search_by_Wildcard.htm (318 words)

	IBM CS/Linux Administration Command Reference - 2.64 delete_ls_routing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Specify 3-17 locally displayable characters that consist of a 1-8 character network name, followed by a period, followed by a 1-8 character partner LU name.
		To delete a wildcard entry, specify the same wildcard LU name that you used to define the entry.
		This flag is used to delete a wildcard entry; you cannot use wildcards to delete more than one explicitly-defined entry.
	www-306.ibm.com /software/network/commserver/library/publications/cslinux6001/admcr43.htm (343 words)

	Microsoft Windows XP - Using wildcard characters
		A wildcard character is a keyboard character such as an asterisk () or a question mark (?) that is used to represent one or more characters* when you are searching for files, folders, printers, computers, or people.
		Wildcard characters are often used in place of one or more characters when you do not know what the real character is or you do not want to type the entire name.
		Use the question mark as a substitute for a single character in a name.
	www.microsoft.com /resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/find_c_search_wildcard.mspx (192 words)

	More About Wildcard Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You can specify a wildcard character to represent the letters in the middle of a word.
		You can specify the maximum number of characters that the wildcard symbol can match in order to retrieve a record.
		You can even use more than one wildcard character in a term.
	www.spi.org /fmanual/d_wild2.htm (392 words)

	SourceForge.net CVS Repository - markup - cvs: leputty/wildcard.c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		/* * The wildcard matching technique we use is very simple and * potentially O(N^2) in running time, but I don't anticipate it * being that bad in reality (particularly since N will be the size * of a filename, which isn't all that much).
		It is therefore extremely simple to look at a rigid * fragment and determine whether or not it begins at a particular * point in the test string; so we can search along the string * until we find each fragment, then search for the next.
		As long * as we find each fragment in the _first_ place it occurs, there * will never be a danger of having to backpedal and try to find it * again somewhere else.
	cvs.sourceforge.net /viewcvs.py/leputty/wildcard.c?rev=1.1&view=markup (1136 words)

	Search with Wildcards
		This table shows the wildcard characters that can be used for searching our collection.
		Specifies one of any character in a set, as in "sl[iau]m" which locates "slim," "slam," and "slum." Square brackets indicate an implied OR.
		To search for a wildcard character in your collection, you need to escape the character with a backslash (\).
	www.doleta.gov /regions/reg05/Pages/SearchWildcards.cfm?CFID=1358160&CFTOKEN=17604630 (584 words)

	LIKE (T-SQL)
		During pattern matching, regular characters must exactly match the characters specified in the character string; wildcard characters, however, can be matched with arbitrary fragments of the character string.
		Instead of 19 names, you may get only 14, with all the names that begin with s or have y as the second letter or have s as the third letter eliminated from the results as well as the system table names.
		This is because match strings with negative wildcards are evaluated in steps, one wildcard at a time.
	doc.ddart.net /mssql/sql70/la-lz_2.htm (1271 words)

	Using wildcards in a search
		Select a wildcard pattern in the list and enter a new name, regular expression, and replacement value in the text boxes below the list.
		Characters that are used to specify wildcard options, such as "?", "\", "[", and "]", must be preceded by a backslash.
		The caret serves as a wildcard character only when it precedes a range of characters, as in "[^A-Z]".
	www.chem.uwec.edu /GoLiveHelp/1_6_9_3.html (615 words)

	wildcard character - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A wildcard character is a special character that represents one or more other characters.
		The most commonly used wildcard characters are the asterisk (), which typically represents zero or more characters* in a string of characters, and the questionmark (?), which typically represents any one character.
		In various games of playing cards, a wild card is a designated card in the deck of cards (for example, the two of spades) that can be used as though it were any possible card.
	searchsmb.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,,sid44_gci213935,00.html (169 words)

	. (Wildcard character) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Because the period is used in almost all Windows file names it is very common to forget that it has a very special meaning in regular expressions.
		If the user wishes to use the period literally in a search it must be preceded by the '\' escape character.
		The expression 'my.\.txt' would find any file that includes 'my' followed by any number of characters* followed by '.txt' (note the use of '*' to specify zero or more occurrences).
	www.mythicsoft.com /agentransack/help/_(anycharacter).htm (182 words)

	Access queries with a wildcard character do not export data to an XML document
		When you export an Access query to an XML document, and the query contains a Microsoft Jet wildcard character such as an asterisk (*) in the criteria, the data is not exported to the XML document.
		When you use a Jet-specific wildcard character in the Access query, the query returns no records.
		Instead of specifying a wildcard character in the criteria of the query, you can create a filter with the filter string equivalent to the criteria that you want (such as "A*") and then apply this filter during the Export XML process.
	support.microsoft.com /?id=823224 (521 words)

	Using wildcard character in web.xml with Tomcat 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I need to create this pattern for all characters and numbers except when the path starts with '/_' (which in this case the broser should simply display the resource as requested).
		A string beginning with a '/' character and ending with a '/*' suffix is used for path mapping.
		A string beginning with a '*.' prefix is used as an extension mapping.
	www.codecomments.com /message202238.html (404 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For B-Tree finds, the argument is scanned for the first occurance of the wildcard character, and a "trailing-at" search is done.
		If the wildcard is found, the rest of the argument text is ignored.
		If the wildcard character is found at character k+1 (1-based), then the returned super-chain will consist of all keys that match the argument in character positions 1..k.
	jazz.external.hp.com /papers/btree.txt (1075 words)

	MySQL Bugs: #3957: Wildcard character of LIKE pattern-matching doesn't match zero characters.
		Wildcard character of LIKE pattern-matching doesn't match zero characters.
		But it doesn't if the column is indexed and character set of the column is ujis (or utf8).
		For latin1_swedish_ci character strings and BINARY strings, InnoDB uses its own pad-spaces-at-end comparison method, which stays unchanged.
	bugs.mysql.com /3957 (757 words)

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