Special characters for use with advanced searching.
The following special characters extend your possibilities when entering a search request:

? matches any character

* matches any number of characters

A search word can contain the wildcard characters * and ?

A ? in a word matches any single character, and a * matches any number of characters. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word. For example:

appl* would match apple, application, etc.

*cipl* would match principle, participle, etc.

appl? would match apply and apple but not apples

ap*ed would match applied, approved, etc.

Use of the wildcard * near the beginning of a word will slow the search somewhat, and is not recommended if you estimate a large number of hits.