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Probably wildcards sound familiar for you. It was used in DOS (you know that crap stuff from Bill G.), but it is used in windows, too (another Bill G. classic).
However, these wildcards are very useful, and very simple to use. The '?' character will substitute one character, and a '*'
character will substitute one or more characters. With these two special characters you can do useful things:
Let's search for words which end with 'inter'! You just
type this into the text field: *inter And the result will contain the vinter, midvinter, printer and so on.
If you search the words which start with 'nation': nation* The result will be rather big, containing nation, nationalekonom, nationalitet etc., and two expressions along with these words. Quite big result, but you can use those output
type chooser arrows below the result table to split the result into parts. For instance: into expressions and words.
You can use more than one '*' characters in the text field. Try these: *ulla* j*isk
Let's play a bit with the '?' character. Remember, it will substitute only one character.
The next example will show the word that consists of 9 letters, but only four letters are known: the 1st letter is 'p', the 4th is 'f', the 5th is 'e' and the 7th is 't'.
So type this into the text field: p??fe?t?? The result will be the perfectly. Are you solving cross-word puzzles? :)
If you are looking for a word that contains characters your keyboard doesn't have you can subsitute those characters with '?' Additionaly, you can combine the '*' and the '?' characters.
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