Talk:Wildcard character

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Are wild cards still used? With modern text editors and 'explorers' and such this functionality seems to have gone. Why is this? I used to use them a lot. Or do I do something wrong? DirkvdM 07:52, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they are widely used, especially in regular expressions. --Hetzer 15:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

What is there to gain from merging this article with the Glob() article? I can't see the point of it. You would also have to merge it with the wildmat article as that is almost the same thing. I found this article when I was looking to find out the actual wildcard characters that are used in a SQL query statement. Knowing that they were different from those in Access I thought it might be useful to add that. I assumed this would be more of an article relating to actual wildcard characters from different environments where further examples could be added to assist others in their search for appropriate wildcard usage. Maybe wildcards are on the way out as DirkvdM suggested and there is no room for this old school stuff anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigsteworld (talk • contribs) 19:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)