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Don't think those are treated as wildcards
Authored by: jecwobble on Jul 11, '07 08:50:27AM
I don't think "?" or "!" are being treated as wildcards.First off, I replaced those two characters with various other specials characters (#$%^&*-_) including the parenthesis, and got the same results. Second, notice what Dictionary says when you do this: "No entries found. Did you mean?" That tells me it's looking at these entries as misspelled words and using some algorithm to find near matches while disregarding the unusual characters.

For instance, "b?ar" and "b ar" returned the same results: bar; bear; boar. However "?oat" and " oat" returned different results; the latter returning more results and only words beginning "oat".

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Don't think those are treated as wildcards
Authored by: jecwobble on Jul 11, '07 08:52:21AM

Also, compare the results of "?oat" with "qoat"...



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