wildcarded

English - Turkish

Definition of wildcarded in English Turkish dictionary

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wildcard

özel sembol

wildcard

Joker

English - English

Definition of wildcarded in English English dictionary

Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values

The unfortunate consequence is that document elements cannot be wildcarded because a schema needs to provide a closed list of possible document elements.

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wildcard

An uncontrolled or unpredictable element

There are several technical wildcards, such as how the larger battery packs--four times larger than those of the Prius--will withstand the rigors of city driving,.

wildcard

A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified

In searching, if a*m finds amalgam, atom and alum, then * is acting as a wildcard.

wildcard

Special characters used in search keywords that can match any character or string of characters You can use wildcards to match various patterns of words or letters

wildcard

A symbol that enables multiple matching values to be returned based on a shared feature The script language has two wildcards: The question mark (?) stands for any single character The asterisk (*) stands for any character string of any length For example, the file specification * * would return all the files, regardless of their file names The file specification * sc? would return all the file names with a three-character extension beginning with sc (such as compusrv scr, compusrv scx, and so on)

wildcard

The wildcard character, *, is used in place of characters in your search terms, when more than one letter is likely to fit that space For example, a search for wom*n finds articles containing the terms "woman," "women," and "womyn "

wildcard

A special character which acts as a substitute for one or more characters in a file name or extension

wildcard

in several instances (most frequently on variable lists) you may specify a string (e g a label reference) containing wildcard characters A wildcard character tells EDA that in the position(s) marked by such a character any character may be present for a match The EDA wildcard character is the '*' symbol, which has two different meanings depending upon the position in the string: (1) at the end of the string it means "match all" (2) within a string "match any character" VAR* matches all variables starting with VAR, the characters beyond do not matter ***X looks for any four-character long label, having an 'X' in position 4 and any 3 characters preceeding it Of course the two meanings may be combined: ***X*

wildcard

Symbols used in an electronic search to tell the search engine to look for all possible endings to a word The most common wildcard symbols are an asterisk (*) for multiple letters, numbers, or symbols, and a question mark (?) for single characters See Expanding a Search with Wildcards in Conducting Electronic Searches

wildcard

A character that stands in for another character or group of characters Most search tools use an asterisk for this function Although the wildcard is most often used in truncation, it can also be used in the middle of words (for example, wom*n)

wildcard

An placeholder used to represent any character or group of characters

wildcard

Characters that can substitute for other characters in a search query * stands for any number of characters; ? stands for any single character

wildcard

A percent sign (%) that stands for one or more characters Allows the user to select multiple rows with a single query criteria For example, the query criteria of "a%" refers to all files that begin with an "a"

wildcard

A symbol used in electronic searching to represent any character Wildcards can usually be used at the end of a word or within a word to search for all forms of the word Check the help screens of a particular database to determine the appropriate symbol to use (Unit 4> A Primer on Databases and Catalogs)

wildcard

A character string that is used in text searches to make finding a match easier An asterisk (*) usually means find any character or set of characters

wildcard

A character, usually an asterisk (*), that you use alone to specify all files and directories that are available, or with a few other letters to specify a group of files and directories that have a common element in their names For example, to specify all files and directories that begin with the letters “ch”, you would type: ch*

wildcard

A symbol, such as ? or *, used in online searching to represent any letter or letters

wildcard

A charecter used in certain commands that represents any charecter, or set of charecters

wildcard

{i} card whose value is determined by the player (Cards); athlete or team chosen to compete though unqualified; unpredictable factor; character that can be used to represent every possible character combination (Computers)

wildcard

A symbol that stands for one or more unspecified character

wildcard

A character that can be used to represent any other character or series of characters in a statement For instance, the wildcard "*" allows "DAN*Y" to refer to both "DANNY" and "DANDY " Useful in searches when you don't know the exact text you are looking for, and in specifying and action to be performed on a group of files

wildcard

(n ) A metacharacter that represents a range of ordinary characters; for example, the shell's use of * and ?

wildcard

In a keyword search, a symbol may sometimes be inserted in the middle of a search term to retrieve words containing any character in the designated position The wildcard symbol may vary from one type of search software to the next See also truncation and Boolean searching Example: In some databases, the keywords search wom+n (or wom?n) will retrieve records containing both "woman" and "women "

wildcard

A special character that acts like a joker when it is used in filenames or pathnames Unix shells have two: * and ?

wildcard

A symbol that, when entered in a field represents either a single character or any number of characters Wildcards can be combined with other characters In Data Query, the underscore symbol (_) represents any single character; the percentage symbol (%) represents any number of characters

wildcard

a character that stands for another character or a group of characters in a search Most search tools use an asterisk as a wildcard

wildcard

A special character such as *, $, or ? that can replace any character or characters in a string Wildcards are used in catalog searches to extend a search term See Truncation

wildcard

A symbol that represents a character or series of characters In DOS and Windows the asterisk (*) can represent a letter or combination of letters This is useful in performing file and text searches

wildcard

A special character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that you can use to represent one or more characters Any character or set of characters can replace a pattern matching character

Etymology

() wildcard +‎ -ed