Wildcards
The search, filtering and - in some cases - the erasing tools support, where indicated, the use of the Wildcard characters.
Wildcards are often used in place of one or more characters when you do not know the actual font or you want to avoid typing the whole name. For example, they allow to identify all the elements whose name begins with "ABC", without knowing or considering the remaining part. The supported wildcards are shown below:
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* |
Undefined group of characters.
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? |
Single undefined character.
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# |
Single digit (0..9).
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[<Caratteri>] |
Single character inside the Characters list. Enter the characters to be considered, without separator (e.g. [ABCDKZ]), or use a dash (-) to indicate a range of characters (e.g. [A-Z]).
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[!<Caratteri>] |
Single character not included in the Characters list.
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Remarks
To find the special characters Left Square Parenthesis ([), Question Mark (?), Number symbol (#) and Asterisk (*), enclose them in square brackets. The Right Square Parenthesis (]) can not be used in a group to search for other right-bracket brackets, but it can be used as a single character outside a group.
In Characters, you can specify a range of characters using a dash (-) to separate the upper and lower bounds of the list. If you specify, for example, [A-Z] the match will be found with any character in the range from A to Z that is in that position. Multiple brackets, intervals and individual characters can be inserted between square brackets without any delimitation.
When specifying a range of characters, these characters must be shown in ascending order. For example, [A-Z] is an interval while [Z-A] is not.
An exclamation point (!) At the top of the Fonts list allows you to find a match with any character not included in Characters; if used outside the square brackets it finds a correspondence with another exclamation point.
To find a correspondence with the dash (-) character, this character must be inserted at the beginning (after any exclamation point) or at the end of the list in Characters. In any other position within the square brackets the hyphen identifies a range of characters.