A wildcard character can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string. Wildcard searches can expand the number
of matches for a particular request.
The asterisk (*) substitutes as a wildcard character for one or more characters, and the question mark (?)substitutes as a wildcard character for any one character.
The "*" The "?" wildcard represents a single chracter match.
For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why,
when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.
Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together,
gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the
word. Searching for m? will find me, my, mo, ms, m2... any two character string that starts with "m".
Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus
(-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers.
+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with
wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends
with ch.
"wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why
are, etc.
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