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Wildcard in Q&A

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Grant Hensel on 19 Feb 2016 03:52:22

As a user, I want to reference columns that I can't remember the exact name for. Having a wildcard character (such as % or *) would prevent me from getting stumped because I typed the wrong version of a column name

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d41fd652 3cc7-ea11-a812-000d3a9b112e on 15 Aug 2020 08:46:04

RE: Wildcard in Q&A

I propose those wildcards:
Sale !Sales for Sale but not Sales (! instead -)
"Sale" for exact whole word Sale
xxx* for starting with xxx
*xxx for ending with xxx
*xxx*yyy* for containing xxx and yyy (no matter in what order)
x?y for xay, xby, x1y, x2y, .... but not xaby
x#y for x1y, x2y, ....
x&y for xay, xby, ....