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Subject:RE: Any sample descriptions for using wildcards? From:"Victoria Nuttle" <vnuttle -at- cauto -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:46:53 -0500
They way you wrote it out is pretty much they way I do it in all the
documentation I write that deals with wildcards. Only things I'd add is
that J will find any number of characters, and if there are any
restrictions on case in the search. It's really not a concept that
takes more than a paragraph or two, IMHO. Most people know the term
"wildcard" and can apply it fairly easily.
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Victoria J. Nuttle
Technical Writer, Creative Automation
vnuttle -at- cauto -dot- com
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From: jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com [mailto:jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:33 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Any sample descriptions for using wildcards?
Hi,
I'm in a bind. I need to describe (in online help for non-technical
users)
how to use wildcareds in a field. Basic idea:
*j* gets all items that have a j somewhere in the middle of the word
J* gets all items that start with J
*j gets all items that end with j.
Anybody done anything like this that might be short, sweet, and
stealable?
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