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wild card
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wild card

See wild cards and wildcard mask.


wild card
2. Computing a symbol that can represent any character or group of characters, as in a filename

wild card [′wīld ‚kärd]
(computer science)
A symbolic character in a search argument such that any character will satisfy it.

(operating system, programming, text)wild card - (From card games in which certain cards, often the joker, can act as any other card) A special character or character sequence which matches any character in a string comparison, like ellipsis ("...") in ordinary written text.

In Unix filenames '?' matches any single character and '*' matches any zero or more characters. In regular expressions, '.' matches any one character and "[...]" matches any one of the enclosed characters.

See also Backus-Naur Form.


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The other wild-card is Hillary Norton-Orozco, who was once chief of staff for Richard Alatorre, the longtime councilman from the 14th District.
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Sam Querrey has taken advantage of several wild-card entries this year to compete against some of the world's best players in ATP Masters Series events, even knocking off a few along the way.
 
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