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Special Filtering Characters

Special filtering characters, listed as follows, are provided as pattern matching characters. All other characters reference a match of that specific character. The special filtering characters are:

*

Matches any string of characters.

This character is a fuzzy match character that can reference any number of characters and no characters.

For example:

*

Matches everything

A*

Matches data starting with "A"

*A

Matches data ending with "A" ("A", "LA", "FLORIDA", and so on)

*A*

Matches "A" anywhere in the data ("A", "LA", "OHARE", "MAINE", and so on)

?

Matches any single character including a blank.

^

Matches a single non blank character.