Wild cards

Match special characters

Wild cards

Example

Wild card

Description

Wild card

Possible Results

?

Any single character.

T?m

Tam

Tim

Tom

12?0

1200

1220

12A0*

*

Zero or more characters.

Ma*

Ma

Mark

Manilla

10*

10

1

#

Any single digit (0-9).

200#

2000

2001

2003

Match Special Characters

Example

Character

Group

Match

[]

Encloses characters, including wild cards, to match.

abc[*]

abc*

[

Can be enclosed in a match character group.

Note: The right bracket, ] , cannot be used within a group to match itself, but it can be used outside of any brackets as an individual character.

[[]abc]

[abc]

[charlist]

Any character that matches one or more enclosed characters.

t[io]p

Yes

tip

top

Note: The character sequence [] is considered a zero-length string ("").

No

tap

[!charlist]

Any character that is not enclosed in brackets.

t[!io]p

Yes

tap

No

tip

top

[char-list]

(Hyphen) separates the upper and lower bounds of a charlist to identify a range.

[0-5]AB

Yes

0AB

1AB

Important: When a range of characters is specified, they must appear in ascending sort order (from lowest to highest),

[A-Z] is a valid pattern.

[Z-A] is not a valid pattern.

No

6AB

[char-list][char-list]

Matches multiple ranges.

[A-M][0-5]

Yes

A1

M5

Note: There are no delimiters between ranges.

No

N6

A9

Z0

[-charlist]

Matches itself when it is:

[-201]

Yes

-21

At the beginning of a charlist.

No

33

After an exclamation point.

[ABCD-]

Yes

ABC-

At the end of charlist.

No

DEF

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