Simple wildcard patterns are used in different parts of the Application Server for simple and easy to understand matching (=specifying and recognizing) strings of text.

Table 1: Characters with special meaning in a simple wildcard patterns

Following rules apply to wildcard patterns

•There can be more than one wildcard in a single search pattern, and the two wildcard characters can be used in combination. For example, m*?? will match words starting with m with three or more characters.

•A pattern not including any wildcard character will search for an exact match.

•Wildcard patterns are case insensitive

•you want to search for * or ?, i.e. if you do not want those characters to be interpreted as wildcards you can escape them using the backslash \* or \?

•** is logically equal to *

Examples:

•m* will match every string with length ≥ 1 starting with m or M

•m?* will match every string with length ≥ 2 starting with m or M

•*m will match every string with length ≥ 1 ending with m or M

•?m will match every string with length 2 where the second character is  m or M

•\?m will match the string ?m