List of Wildcard characters please!

I've tried to find a list of wildcard characters that can be used in search terms, but to no avail. I'm aware of "*" and "?". I'm wondering if there are any others. The ones I know about don't seem to "play well" with cantillation marks or vowel points in Hebrew.

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David Taylor, Jr.

https://wiki.logos.com/Search_HELP#id:6.2e_Wildcards

Mark Barnes

cantillation marks or vowel points in Hebrew

This may also help: https://wiki.logos.com/Search_Matching_Commands

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717263#Comment_717263

Thanks David, I was hoping (against hope) that there would be an obscure wildcard that I hadn't discovered that would behave more like a Hebrew consonant. Oh well, I'll keep complaining and perhaps when I'm an old man Logos will "catch up" to their competitors in the area of searching on Hebrew vowels/accents. Don't get me wrong I intend to complain, not to jump the fence! [:P]

I LOVE Logos and consider it unrivaled in MANY areas. I simply wish they would focus more on developing Original language work/analysis. [:D]

Brian Wilson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717271#Comment_717271

It would be nice if the wildcards behaved more like regular expressions.

. = any character

? = zero or one

* = zero or more

+ = one or more

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717270#Comment_717270

This may also help: https://wiki.logos.com/Search_Matching_Commands

Thanks Mark,

I am using the matching commands feature, but this won't allow me to find ANY word with a given accent. The closest I've come is copying/pasting a word with the accent I want to find, then replacing the all the characters (that aren't attached to the accent) with an *. The problem is that I can't replace that one character since any vowels/accents are deleted before the consonant. In this way I copied a lamed initial word that contained the accent tevir on the lamed, I then replaced all the consonants (other than the lamed) with an *. The result was that I "hit" all the lamed initial words containing tevir, but you can imagine that that's quite a limited subset of ALL words containing tevir!

When I searched for "[match accents] *֑*" I expected to see roughly one hit per verse. Instead it highlighted EVERY WORD in the Hebrew Bible (no wonder I thought it was doing nothing for a while!).

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717273#Comment_717273

It would be nice if the wildcards behaved more like regular expressions.

You can use simple regular expressions in Logos searching. It's not officially supported, but simple ones work OK.

Try https://community.logos.com/forums/t/12047.aspx

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717276#Comment_717276

I am using the matching commands feature, but this won't allow me to find ANY word with a given accent.

I don't believe it's possible to search only for accents: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/74739/581594.aspx#581594

Reuben Helmuth

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717288#Comment_717288

For anyone interested in the ability to search Hebrew accents/vowels (or those feeling helpful and have a few votes to spare), please vote for the UserVoice item I created here.

Thanks!