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Questions tagged [wildcard]

A wildcard character is a specially defined character allowing for substitution of any other character, including a pattern or sequence of characters. Use this tag for questions on how to use wildcards for regular expressions, shell scripting, string manipulation and database control, but not for use in terminal commands as that is off-topic.

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How can I set a numeric wildcard in MySQL?

I'm trying to create a SQL script that finds codes in two different databases. I want to set a parameter that has a numeric wildcard. Codes are often written like this for example, ABC108, ABC109, ...
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How is Collection<Object> NOT a supertype of all kinds of collections? [duplicate]

I am studying Wildcards from Oracle's documentation, and I can't understand the following section: *Consider the problem of writing a routine that prints out all the elements in a collection. Here's ...
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Oracle SQL pattern matching using wildcards

I'm trying to search though a large list of postal codes in various countries Specifically, I want to identify all Canadian entries USING A CASE STATEMENT. after all spaces have been stripped out, ...
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Missing Output Exception Error in Snakemake with output directory modified

I'm trying to run a workflow on snakemake. I have to automate a couple of steps which are depending all on python scripts or pipelines already made. My rule Gene_flow_between _species has to run once ...
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Missing Output Exception Error in Snakemake with output directory

I'm trying to run a workflow on snakemake. I have to automate a couple of steps which are depending all on python scripts or pipelines already made. My rule Gene_flow_between _species has to run once ...
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Creating domain aliases mapping to wildcard domains

I want to do something like wix.com and accept all external domains requests, i.e. my server accepts requests to all domains which point to our server ip. I have an existing wildcard domain setup: *....
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Snowflake SQL. Select column value if 1st 5 characters are numeric and within a Numeric Range

I have a column named ProcedureCode VARCHAR(16777216) in a Table named ProcedureCode. It has values like '12345,46H', 'A4715,12W', '98765', '99200' etc. From that Table, I need to pull only rows where ...
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SSRS Wildcard Search for several words in a single field

I have a query with a wildcard parameter to search for any part of an action in the 'regardingobjectidname' field: WHERE FilteredActivityPointer.regardingobjectidname LIKE '%' + @Action + '%' The ...
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Wildcard function in Power Automate Desktop [duplicate]

I am receiving a Syntax error when I include a wildcard "%" sign in my SQL statements. Is there another character that should be used instead of the percentage sign? select distinct [...
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How to Obtain Wildcard SSL Certificates for Domains with Only NS Server Access?

I'm setting up a server with Named (BIND) and Nginx, and I have a domain registered on Namecheap that serves as the nameserver domain for my setup. This domain is pointed to my server via NS records. ...
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Looping through list for a pattern match with strings with wildcards

I have sample code of a function in which uses pattern matching to match a string value containing wildcards with an actual string value. def isMatch(text, pattern): n = len(text) m = len(...
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If file with different extension is missing

This seems simple but I haven't been able to modify my script to make it work (attempts are commented out). This is a script that searches for raw files, and if there's no associated jpg file, it does ...
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Regular expression for filename consisting of word, then number, then extension

I got unexpected results using this simple regular expression. Say the current directory contains the following files: foo.txt foo1.txt foo2.txt foo123.txt foo1_bar.txt I would like to list all files ...
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PHP Wildcard Subdomains in Apache

I want so that when im in http://localhost/example/category it allows me to have a subdomain that is dynamic like user1.localhost/example/category, user2.localhost/example/category, user3.localhost/...
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Testing if a value is in an array with a wildcard

I have this value: $ArrVar_ASP=@("Adobe*","UXP WebView Support") $($pre.DisplayName) --> Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) If ($($pre.DisplayName) -notin $ArrVar_ASP) {$...
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