wildcards

Many WordSmith functions allow you a choice of wildcards:

 

symbol

meaning

examples

*

disregard the end of the word,

disregard a whole word

tele*

*ness

*happi*

book * hotel

?

any single character (including punctuation) will match here

Engl???

?50.00

^

a single letter

Engl^^^

#

any sequence of numbers, 0 to 9

$#

£#.00

 

 

 

 

(To represent a genuine #,^,? or *, put each one in double quotes, eg. "?" "#" "^" "*".)

 

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