Pattern matching on Selection Criteria panels

On the selection criteria panels for all events, you can use pattern matching.

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

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Creating-more-powerful-Rules

  • The plus sign (+) stands for any 1 character
  • The asterisk (*) stands for any, all, or no characters

  • The not sign (¬) stands for a negative logic test

    For example, ¬ABCD matches with everything except ABCD.

  • The single quotation mark (‘) acts as a toggle switch

    The first single quotation mark turns pattern matching off, the next turns it on again. If a text string contains a single quotation mark, it must be preceded by a single quotation mark. For example: This text is 'quoted' matches This text is ''quoted'' .

If a + or * is embedded within the pattern string and the pattern string is specified within quotation marks, the + or * values are recognized as part of the string. For example, 'ABC+D' matches only with ABC+D.

Use these wildcard characters when you want to create a pattern for values in your selection criteria. For example, assuming all error messages begin with ERR, you might want to write a Rule that fires for all error messages.

Instead of creating a Rule for every error message, you can specify a pattern of characters that the Text-ID must match: for example Text-ID===> ERR*. This pattern specifies that the Rule should be fired every time a message that begins with ERR is issued.

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