Wildcard Characters

Wildcard Characters can be used in Criteria for alphanumeric fields in Filter & Sorts, and in Match fields in CB Rules.

Wildcard Characters

Available wildcard characters are:

? to match a single character in a particular position.

* to match a number of characters (including none) in that position.

Below are wildcard examples and what they will match:

Example	Matches
SMIT?	SMITH or SMITT but not SMITTEN
SMIT*	SMITH, SMITT, SMITTEN or SMITHSONIAN
?AKE	TAKE, or MAKE but not BRAKE
*AKE	TAKE, MAKE, BRAKE or MISTAKE
ON	ON, SONG, BELONG or HONK

You can combine a number of the ? and * wildcards to match a variety of words or phrases.

Special Characters

User double quotation marks or a literal comparison operator to search for special characters, such as:

For example, to search for ABC?, specify "ABC?"