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Wildcard characters in selection criteria

You can use wildcard characters on most of the fields in the various Selection Criteria panels.

When you want to create a pattern for values in your selection criteria, you can use the wildcard characters to program the pattern into the Rule.

You can utilize the following wildcard characters:

Wildcard character

Description

+

Represents any character or blank space

*

Represents any number (including zero) of nonblank characters

¬

Indicates a negative logic test (¬ABCD matches all except ABCD).

‘

Acts as a toggle switch and thus cannot be coded in the Text String or Variable dependencies panel

The first single quotation mark turns pattern matching off, the next turns it on again. Pattern matching must be used in place of single quotation marks.

For example, the string *IS A* or *TEST MESSAGE* matches THIS 'IS A' TEST MESSAGE.

Note

When you intend to use the + or * as wildcards, they cannot be used within quotation marks in a string. If used within quotation marks, the + or * function as any other character that needs to be matched. For example, 'ABC+D' matches only with ABC+D.

Tip

You can test that your wildcard string operates as expected by specifying N in the SEND EVENT field on the BMC EM/SIM Event Action panel, then check the Rule Set Overview panel to conform that Fired count increases.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*