Wildcard Character

Wildcard Character-The term wildcard character has the following meanings: In telecommunications, a wildcard character is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters. Also, A special symbol used in database searching that stands for one or more characters, often an asterisk (*). Example: wom*n will search for woman and women. They are useful when you are unsure of spelling, when there are alternate spellings, or when you only know part of a term.