Search - clicking on the magnifying glass icon

[cchua]

When I click on the magnifying glass search icon, a dialog box shows up:

(Assume my word is 文)

The dialog box contents will be

*文*
文#*
文*
*#文
*文

My question is, what do these selections mean ?
Can someone please translate these into plain english ?

For example, I think 文* means -- "All phrases that begin with 文"

I'm not so sure about the other ones, especially the lines that contain #.

[hanping]

Yes, that's right, the "*" means any string of zero-or-more characters. The "#" means exactly one character.

So, for example: 文#* means any word starting with 文 but also at least two characters long. In other words, this will return the same as 文* but without the 文 results.

You can use these wildcards when typing in the search box (though most of the time it's more effort than it's worth).