Searching With Wildcards; Searching For Wildcards As Literals; Searching For Special Characters As Literals - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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Searching with Wildcards

This table shows the wildcard characters for searching Verity collections.
Verity Wildcard Characters
Wildcard
?
*
[]
{}
^
-

Searching for wildcards as literals

To search for a wildcard character in your collection, you need to escape the character
with a backslash (\). For example:
To match a literal asterisk, you precede the * with two backslashes: "a\\*"
To match a question mark or other wildcard character: "Checkers\?"

Searching for special characters as literals

The following non-alphanumeric characters must be preceded by a backslash
character (\) in a search string:
comma (,)
left and right parentheses ()
double quotation mark (")
backslash (\)
at sign (@)
Description
Question. Specifies any single alphanumeric character.
Asterisk. Specifies zero or more alphanumeric characters. Avoid using
the asterisk as the first character in a search string. Asterisk is ignored in
a set, [] or an alternative pattern {}.
Square brackets. Specifies one of any character in a set, as in "sl[iau]m"
which locates "slim," "slam," and "slum." Square brackets indicate an
implied OR.
Curly braces. Specifies one of each pattern separated by a comma, as in
"hoist{s, ing, ed}" which locates "hoists," "hoisting," and "hoisted." Curly
braces indicate an implied AND.
Caret. Specifies one of any character not in the set as in "sl[^ia]m" which
locates "slum" but not "slim" or "slam."
Hyphen. Specifies a range of characters in a set as in "c[a-r]t" which
locates every word beginning with "c," ending with "t," and containing
any letter from "a" to "r."
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