wildcards Definition wildcards
Wildcards are characters that, in some circumstances, can
represent a range of ASCII characters. Another name for them is
``metacharacters''. The wildcards available under COHERENT are
as follows:
? Match any one character.
* Match any number of characters, or no characters at all.
[ ] A set of characters enclosed between `[' and `]' will match
any one character of the set. Sets of characters may in-
clude ranges, such as [a-z] for all lower-case letters or
[0-9] for all numerals.
\ Ignore the special meaning of a wildcard.
***** See Also *****
definitions, egrep, patterns, pnmatch()
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