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Wildcards (? and *) support #220
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what exactly can be in the pattern (with and without the flag for wildcards?) |
@izulin What do you mean? There are three special characters introduced asterisk: "*", quotation mark: "?" and the tilde: "~". Without the flag, they are considered as any other character. When it comes to the use cases, there are multiple sources all over the internet. Some are simple, some pretty advanced: https://www.excelawesome.com/12-excel-wildcard-examples-you-need-to-know/ |
Do we need the flag? There is no such flag in EXCEL/GS, right? |
ok |
@izulin There are two additional flags that may be related:
What if underneath it's always a Regexp?
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@wojciechczerniak one last question: what happens, if we improperly use '~' for escaping? |
@wojciechczerniak |
Escaped character is still that character.
Comparison operators are subjected to AccentSensitivity is not mentioned within ODFF. Looks like the culture settings are global and IMO is a good rule of thumb. |
Done in #303 |
Description
ODFF specifies
wildcards
in their global (evaluator) settings: #58Related functions
All database functions: DAVERAGE, DCOUNT, DCOUNTA, DGET, DMAX, DMIN, DPRODUCT, DSTDEV, DSTDEVP, DSUM, DVAR, DVARP
Then this depends on the function description, but we can extract the list: COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, HLOOKUP, LOOKUP, MATCH, VLOOKUP, SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS, FIND, SEARCH.
All of them has short note:
Links
http://help.grapecity.com/spread/SpreadSheets12/webframe.html#wildcard.html
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