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