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

One or more strings containing wildcards. A document returns only 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 must be percent-encoded to ensure that any commas or curly braces that are part of a string are not interpreted as query syntax.

If you send HTTP requests using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded you must 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 One or more fields. A document returns only 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

The URL field value must end with html or htm.

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

The Climbers or Plants field value must contain a phrase that begins with passi and ends with incarnata, for example, passionflower incarnata or passiflora incarnata.

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

The 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.

FieldText=WILD{wom?n }:Clothes

The Clothes field value must contain a word that matches the specified wildcard string, for example, woman or women.

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