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Probably wildcards sound familiar for you. It was used in DOS, but it is used in windows, too.
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 inter, interes, pointer etc., and an expression along with these words. You can use those output type chooser arrows below the result table to split the result into terms and words.
You can use more than one '*' characters in the text field. Try this: *inter*
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 11 letters, but only five letters are known: the 1st letter is 'i', the 4th is 'e', the 5th is 'r', the 9th is 'b' and the last one is 'o'.
So type this into the text field: i??er???b?o The result will be the intercambio. Are you solving cross-word puzzles? :)
You can combine the * and the ? characters.
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