Wildcards

Wildcards widen the scope of a search by finding all occurrences of terms sharing groups of letters or numbers. When you search using wildcards, many matches are possible. The Specs & Standards wildcard is the asterisk (*).

The asterisk wildcard represents an unspecified number of characters. Use wildcards with single terms only. If you use a wildcard after a search string containing several terms, the program retrieves millions of results—too many to be useful.

You can use the asterisk wildcard at the beginning, middle or end of a term

Examples:

Keyword Search: cap*
Finds: cap, capacitor, capacitors, caps

Document Number Search: Mil-C-12*
Finds: All document numbers starting with MIL-C-12, such as, MIL-C-12002A, MIL-C-12124, MIL-C-123/10A, MIL-C-123A

Document Number Search: *123
Finds: All document numbers ending with 123

Document Number Search: ASTM*123
Finds: All documents that start with the ASTM prefix and end with 123

Document Number Search: *123*
Finds: All documents containing 123