in reply to Re: Partial Searches Against Multiple Wildcards
in thread Partial Searches Against Multiple Wildcards

> that an arbitrary number of characters can appear in the entry between any two characters of the search term.

I don't see this. Only that one single hyphen can appear in between.

But the character class approach is nice and should also be translatable to an SQL LIKE.

Best solution so far! Just join with "-?" instead of ".*" to handle hyphens.

👍🏼

update

I think I see your confusion, but DD482 can match the bracketed part of D7(*D-48*)6 it doesn't start with the first D.

Cheers Rolf
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