Hello Can you all help me to understand how to use the wild card method in doing a search? Some of the German sites say to use them. As the Bengschs and Brussats are still hiding from me i need all the help i can get. Thanks Darlene

Searching with Wildcard Characters To search for words that have spelling variations or contain a specified pattern of characters, use ? and * (called wildcard characters) to represent the variations. ? Represents any single alphanumeric character in the position it occupies. * Represents zero, one, or multiple alphanumeric characters in the position it occupies. Notes: The ? wildcard can appear at the beginning of a word, in the middle of a word, or at the end of a word. The * wildcard can appear at the end of a word to find words with different endings, or in the middle of a word to find words containing a specified pattern of characters. The * wildcard can not appear at the beginning of a word. You cannot use ? or * within quotation marks when you specifying an exact match. Wildcard matching must match all characters explicitly specified. If you enter the keyword cable, IEEE Xplore also looks for records containing the stem variation cabling. If you enter cable*, IEEE Xplore does not match cabling, because there is no e to match. The * wildcard can match words that are not the stem variations that normal IEEE Xplore searching matches. For example, cable* matches cableguns and cableway, but cable does not; it matches words with common suffixes such as -ed, -es, and -ing. Examples: cable? Matches any record containing six-character words such as cables or cabled in any field. Does not match cable (? must match one character), cabling, cableguns, or cableway. t?re Matches any record containing four-character words such as tire, tyre, or tore in any field. Does not match tires or three. ???agon Matches hexagon or paragon. Does not match pentagon. t?re* Matches tire (in which * matches no characters), tyre, tires, tyres, three, and threshold. m*n* Matches man, mean, median, moon, magnification, modification, management, mnemonic, and any other word in which m is followed by n. electro* Matches electron, electrons, electronic, electronics, electromagnetic, electromechanical, electrostatic, and electrolyte. optic* <in> de Matches records containing optic, optics, or optical in the Index Terms field. C3?.2* Matches records containing C37.20.2-1993, C37.20.2b-1994, or C37.26-1972 (IEEE standards). > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:18:27 -0500 > Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] wild cards > > Hello > Can you all help me to understand how to use the wild card method in doing a search? Some of the German sites say to use them. As the Bengschs and Brussats are still hiding from me i need all the help i can get. > Thanks Darlene > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message