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Asterisk (*) Masking Character

Use an asterisk (*) as a wild card to represent a single character that is not a blank or a null. Although you can enter an asterisk by itself, it is more likely that you would use it as a masking symbol in a name. You can use an asterisk at any position in a name.

The following example illustrates how you might use an asterisk as a mask in a file name:

CA Auditor would not show you this file name: ABCDEF