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Wildcard character


SGD uses an asterisk "*" as a wildcard symbol. In a search, the wildcard character shows where any text can be tolerated. For example, searching for the locus "cdc*" will produce all cdc genes. Searching for the Author "Johns*" will produce all authors whose last name begins with those letters.
Source: yeastgenome.org (offline)

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Wildcard character


A character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters. Note 1: In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the wildcard character "?" may be substituted for any one of the 36 characters, "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9." Note 2: Whether the wild [..]
Source: atis.org (offline)

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Wildcard character


A special symbol that stands for one or more characters. Many operating systems and applications support wildcards for identifying files and directories. This enables you to select multiple files with [..]
Source: webopedia.com

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Wildcard character


A wildcard character is a character that can be substituted for either a single character or a string of characters. For instance, in certain operating systems, the asterisk character "*& [..]
Source: techopedia.com





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