wildcard

A character used in a search or conditional expression that matches one or more literal characters. In Actuate Basic technology, wildcards include the ones listed in Table G-7.

Table G-7  Wildcards 

Wildcard	Definition
?	Match any one character (1- or 2-byte character)
#	Match any ASCII numeric character [0–9]
*	Match any number of characters

Related terms

Actuate Basic technology, character, conditional expression, search expression

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