To use supported wildcards, select Use Wildcards under Text Match on the Option's Search Criteria tab. The following wildcard options are supported in DocLink search criteria:
Wildcard | Description |
'*' or '%' | Asterisk or Percent - Searches for zero to any number of characters. Often the asterisk is used in place of part of a phrase or word.
Example, searching for 'ap*' would return matches that include AP, AP-Link, ape, APEC, apple, apples, etc. |
'?' or '_' | Question mark or Underscore - Searches for any single character or digit.
Example, searching for '1?' would return matches that include 10, 12, 17, and 19. Searching for '1???' would return matches that include 1000, 1111, 1001, 1586, 1073, etc. |
[charlist] | Searches for any single character/digit contained within the brackets.
Example, searching for 1[0234] would return matches that contained 10, 12, 13, and 14 as the first two digits. |
[!charlist] | Searches for any matches that do not include characters/digits within the brackets.
Example, searching for 1[!0234] would return matches that contained 11, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 as the first two digits. |