Wildcard Patterns

SMS Studio supports case-insensitive text matching with wildcard patterns.

Wildcard patterns may contain the following wildcards:

• Asterisk ( * ) - Matches zero or more characters.
• Question mark ( ? ) - Matches a single character.
• Number sign ( # ) - Matches a single digit.

• Dollar sign ( $ ) - Matches a single letter.

• Exclamation mark ( ! ) - Matches a single character that is neither a digit nor a letter.

To match spaces, you can use the following characters:

• Space - Matches one or more space characters.
• Circumflex ( ^ ) - Matches zero or more space characters.

Note that separators, which you can define in the Options Dialog, are treated as space characters.

You can also use the following special characters:

• Vertical line ( | ) - Combines wildcard patterns in logical OR operation.
• Tilde ( ~ ) - Indicates the end of the prefix if applicable. If no tilde character is specified, then the end of the prefix is implicitly determined by the first occurrence of a wildcard.

Examples

Empty pattern will match only empty text.

* will match any text.

Vote* will match Vote, vote, VoTe, Vote Tom, VoteTom, Vote5.

Vote * will match Vote Tom, Vote 5, but will not match Vote, Vote5.

Vote^# will match Vote5, Vote 5, but will not match Vote 51, Vote A.

Vote # | Vote $ will match Vote 5, Vote A, but will not match Vote A5, Vote $.

5?7* will match 557, 5571, 52734, but will not match 5742, 57.

555? | 777? will match 5553, 7773, 7777.