Wild Cards

Wild cards are used in place of one or more characters in a word when you are designing a search on the Search screen.

Wild card	Meaning	Example
*	Any number of characters (including zero) in the middle or at the end of a word	liab* finds liability, liabilities, liable, etc.
		sulur finds sulfur, sulfuric, sulfurous, sulphur, sulphuric, sulphurous etc.
		ste*enson finds Steavenson, Stephenson, Stevenson etc.
?	Any single character in the middle or at the end of a word	compl?ment finds compliment and complement
		compl?ment?ry finds complementary, complementery, complimentary and complimentery
		compl??ent finds complacent, complement and compliment
		ucht?ala finds Uchtala and Uchtála
-	A space, no space or a hyphen between words	data-base finds data base, database and data-base

Wild cards can save you having to enter a number of different spellings of the same word. However they do widen the search and should be used with care, especially the * operator.

You can use the asterisk and question-mark wild cards inside a word, and at the end of a word, but not at the start of a word.

NOTE: – This is a change from the previous versions of Justis, where wild cards could be used at the start of a word.

You can use two or more adjacent question-mark wild cards.

You can combine wild cards to help with your search. For example, data-base* would find data base, database, data-base, data bases, databases and data-bases.

Please do not attempt a search that would find huge numbers of documents. For example, any of these searches:

a*
ab*
a???

would find a huge number of documents, and so Justis will not attempt your search. Please use more characters to the left of your wild card.