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Working with Wildcards
Wildcards
Wildcards are special reserved
characters that match any one or any more characters in the
source. Therefore parts of the text that are not known exactly in
advance can be found and replaced.
Single-char wildcard
In the Edit Strings dialog
select the desired character from the combo box. Use this
character in the Find what text. Any single character
will match this wild card.
Select a character that normally doesn't occur in the text and
you will have no need to search for it literally.
Multi-char wildcard
In the Edit Strings dialog
select the desired character from the combo box. Use this
character in the Find what text. Any string consisting
of one or more characters will match this wild card.
Select a character that normally doesn't occur in the text and
you will have no need to search for it literally.
Examples
(? (question mark) is
selected for the single-char wildcard, * (asterisk) is selected
for multi-char wildcard)
| Find-what
string |
Strings
that will be found |
| ??.* ???? |
01.January 2006
23.FEB 2001 |
| The service * time. |
The service was great
although I have to admit when we went we were the only
customers there at the time.
The service was disappointing this time. |
| <font *> |
<font
color="#FFFFFF" size="2"
face="Arial">
<font size="3" face="Courier
New"> |
See also
Overview, Setting
It Up
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