Using Wildcards in Your Search Query

Pattern matching characters, or wildcards, can be used as a part of your search term to search for words with matching letters. This simplifies the retrieval of plural and alternate word forms and eliminates the need for repeated entry of similar terms.

The special pattern match operators (wildcards) are $ and ?.

A dollar sign ($) represents any number of characters:

For example, the search term "report$" will find the following words: report, reports, reported, reporter, reporters, reporting.

A question mark (?) represents a single character:

The search term "report?" would find only the word reports. The word report would not be found since the question mark requires one additional character.