Search Wildcards in Checkpoint
Use wildcards in your search terms to increase or refine your results. Wildcards act as placeholders in search terms for things like missing or unknown letters or numbers, unique spellings, and unknown words.
When you add a wildcard to your terms, Checkpoint retrieves results depending on which wildcard you used.
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Search results may include terms that wildcards don't reference, depending on available results.
Wildcard | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
* | The asterisk (*) is a placeholder for 0 or more characters. Use this at the end of a word to include its various endings. | Example search term: depreciat*
Finds: "depreciate", "depreciates", "depreciated", and "depreciation" |
? | The question mark (?) replaces a single character in the term and can be used anywhere in a search except at the beginning. It can also be used multiple times in a single term. | Example search: IR?
Finds: "IRS", "IRA", "IRC" |
# | Use the hashtag or number sign (#) at the beginning of a term to exclude plurals or equivalencies in the results. | Example search term: #damage
Finds: damage Does not find: damages, damaged |
- | Use the hyphen (-) to allow variations of the same phrase that may sometimes be hyphenated. | Example search term: e-mail
Finds: "e-mail", "e mail", and "email" |