WILD

The WILD field specifier (case sensitive) allows you to find documents in which a specified field contains a string that matches a specified wildcard string.

If the query does not contain any wildcard characters (? or *) then the WILD field specifier acts in the same way as the MATCH field specifier.

NOTE: The field specifier speed can be optimized by restricting the field to the MatchType property type.

Format

FieldText=WILD{yourStrings}:yourFields
yourStrings

Type one or more strings containing wildcards. A document is only returned if one of yourFields matches one of these strings.You can match strings that contain punctuation (but see Note below) or consist of several words.

NOTE: Strings in the query should be percent-encoded. This ensures that any commas or curly braces that are part of a string are not interpreted as query syntax. If you are sending HTTP requests using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded you should then percent-encode all parameter values, meaning that any commas or curly braces that are part of a string are percent-encoded twice (such that a comma is represented by the sequence %252c). For more information, see Percent Encoding in Queries.
yourFields Type one or more fields. A document is only returned if it contains one of these fields, and if this field contains one of yourStrings. Separate multiple fields with colons (:). There must be no space before or after a colon.

Example

FieldText=WILD{*.html,*.htm}:URL

A document's URL field value must end with html or htm for this document to be returned as a result.

FieldText=WILD{passi*incarnata}:Climbers:Plants

A document's Climbers or Plants field value must contain a phrase that begins with passi and ends with incarnata (for example, passionflower incarnata or passiflora incarnata) for this document to be returned as a result.

FieldText=WILD{*www.example.com*.txt}:PATH

A document's PATH field value must contain a path that contains www.example.com and ends with .txt (for example, http://www.example.com/files/doc.txt) for this document to be returned as a result.

FieldText=WILD{wom?n }:Clothes

A document's Clothes field value must contain a word that matches the specified wildcard string (for example, woman or women) for this document to be returned as a result.

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