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About Wild Card Filter

Wild Card possible combinations:

           "*.*"  Select any string
            ".*"  Select any string
            "*."  Select files with no extension
             "."  Select files with no extension
             "*"  Select any String
       "*&char*"  Select name with matching middle string
       "*.&type"  Select name of specific type
        ".&type"  Select names of specific type
       "&name.*"  Select specific name of any type
   "&name.&type"  Select specific name and type
         "&name"  Select names that start with("&name")
    

Any other combination is used as a template where '*'s in the wild card are replaced by the character in the exact position of input string.

Examples

     *.jcl         selects all file names with file extension of "jcl".
     
     a*.jcl        selects all file names that start with "a" and end with file extension of "jcl".
     
     testpgm1.*    selects all "testpgm1" file names.
     
     *bz*          selects all file names that contain characters "bz". 
     
     ab*d*f.*h     selects all file names with any character in position 3, 5 and 8.
                   Example: "abxdyf.zh" is selected.