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Placeholder (%)

Using a percent sign (%) as a placeholder character in a search string lets you represent a wildcard for one character. You can use placeholders in the following ways:

• When the placeholder is used as the last character in a string, the search result includes all members of the search field, beginning with the characters in the search string preceding the placeholder, but which have no more characters than were used in the search string. For example, UPD% would return all elements beginning with UPD that are four characters in length such as UPD1 or UPDA.
• More than one placeholder can be used in the same search string. For example, U%PD% would return all elements with five-character names that have the letter U as the first character and PD as the third and fourth character.