Wildcard character - Wikipedia
Wildcard character
In software, a wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character, such as an asterisk (
﹡), which can be interpreted as a number of literal characters or an empty string. It is often used in file searches so the full name need not be typed.1
Printed 2026-06-28.
(echo:: @ ᯤ)
Footnotes
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“Using wildcard characters”. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2018-01-23. ↩