WordFinder instructions
This is a wild card based matcher. It searches in a database of 3.5 million words for the entered pattern.
A match means the entire string TEXT is used up in matching.
In the pattern string: |
`*' matches any sequence of characters (zero or more) |
`?' matches any single character |
[SET] matches any character in the specified set, |
[^SET] matches any character not in the specified set. |
A set is composed of characters or ranges; a range looks like character hyphen character (as in 0-9 or A-Z). [0-9a-zA-Z_] is the minimal set of characters allowed in the [..] pattern construct.
To suppress the special syntactic significance of any of `[]*?!^-\', and match the character exactly, precede it with a `\'.
For example: |
'as*da' matches all words starting with 'as' and ending in 'da'. |
Words containing three V's can be found by entering *v*v*v*. |
'a???s' matches 5 letter words starting with a and ending with s. |
'[aeiou]*' matches all words starting with a vowel. |
'[^a-m]*' matches words not starting with letters from a to m. |