Just an idea

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11156323
use warnings;

my %data = map { (split)[1], $_ } <DATA>;

for my $searchfor ( qw( 940 ABFD-1 ABFD1 D7RD DD482 ) )
  {
  print "\n$searchfor\n";
  print  ' ' x 8, $data{$_} for grep match($searchfor, $_), sort keys 
+%data;
  }

sub match
  {
  my ($match, $to) = map tr/-//dr, @_;
  $to =~ /\*/ or return $to =~ $match;
  my @pattern = map s/\*/[A-Z0-9]/gr, $to =~ /(?=(.{@{[length $match]}
+}))/g;
  local $" = '|';
  return $match =~ /@pattern/;
  }

__DATA__
1   ABFD-1234  AAA
2   ABFD-178G  BBB
3   F2HB-9401  AAA
4   ZDDR-00W5  DDD
5   D7*D-48*6  EEE
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Outputs:

940
        3   F2HB-9401  AAA

ABFD-1
        1   ABFD-1234  AAA
        2   ABFD-178G  BBB

ABFD1
        1   ABFD-1234  AAA
        2   ABFD-178G  BBB

D7RD
        5   D7*D-48*6  EEE

DD482
        5   D7*D-48*6  EEE
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