Re: Is wildcard functionality well known enough?

Subject: Re: Is wildcard functionality well known enough?
From: bcliver -at- manu -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:56:07 -0500


>Hi, guys...one of our product recently added the functionality of
>doing wildcard searching via an asterisk. Nothing fancy, enter * in
>place of any string that may be part of a larger string i.e., New
>Yor* would result in New York, New York City, New York State, New
>Yorkie, New Yorkshire Pudding, etc.

I don't assume the concept of wildcard searches is widely known. I would
explain it once in the introduction/conventions section. Note that most
databases use % as a wildcard, and some users may try to use it instead of
*. You already have a good example!

Barry Cliver
Lead Technical Writer

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