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Using the Query Operators
Table 16.5 Wildcard operators
Character
*
?
{}
[ ]
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Description
Specifies 0 or more alphanumeric characters. For example, air* finds
documents that contain air, airline, and airhead.
Cannot use this wildcard as the first character in an expression.
This wildcard is ignored in a set of ([ ]) or in an alternative pattern ({ }).
With this wildcard, the<WILDCARD> operator is implicit.
Specifies a single alphanumeric character, although you can use more
than one ? to indicate multiple characters. For example, ?at finds
documents that contain cat and hat, while ??at finds documents that
contain that and chat.
This wildcard is ignored in a set of ([ ]) or in an alternative pattern ({ }).
With this wildcard, the<WILDCARD> operator is implicit.
An alternative pattern that specifies a series of patterns, one for each
pattern separated by commas. For example,
<WILDCARD> 'Chat{s, ting, ty}'
finds documents that contain chats, chatting, and chatty.
You must enclose the entire string in back quotes and you cannot have
any embedded spaces.
A set that specifies a series of characters that can be
used to find a match. For example,
<WILDCARD> '[chp]at'
finds documents that contain cat , hat , and pat .
You must enclose the entire string in back quotes and you cannot have
any embedded spaces.
Specifies one or more characters to exclude from a set. For example,
<WILDCARD> 'C[^io]t' finds documents that contain cat and cut,
but not cot.
The caret (^) must be the first character after the left bracket.
Specifies a range of characters in a set. For example, <WILDCARD>
'Ch[a-j]t' finds documents that contain any four-letter word from
chat to chjt.