wildcard searches

[dmahling]

I am looking for items that contain the string "*".
So I use advanced search:

(Item) "matches wildcard"

but eventhough there are items containing * and **, none show up. What am I doing wrong?

[ashwken]

Try the search against the (Item Text) attribute and this change.


(Item Text) "matches wildcard" *

[dmahling]

thanks for the reply. I tried all these different ways. Nothing.
Even [?] which should find a single question mark in items and their attributes returns the empty search set.

[ashwken]

uhmm...

I created two text Items, each of which contains the following text string in the Detail Pane of the Item:

This file contains *

and

This file contains **

both Items were returned in the Search Results, see screen shot:

[dmahling]

Thanks Ashwken!
They key is to pick the ItemText field. If you pick (Item) it wont do it.

[kinook]

To search for items whose text contains a *, use

Item Text matches wildcard * *

Note that Item Text, not (Item), must be specified to perform an extended phrase search (since * is not a keyworded symbol).
http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/phrasesearch.htm

will only match on text exactly equal to *
* will only match on text ending with *
http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/matcheswildcard.htm

[ashwken]

Kinook,

Thanks for the clarification, this is helpful.