WildMatch with two **

[omiaye]

I am new to qliksense. Please what will '124.9**' in this expression WildMatch(InputName,'124.9**', '345.2*', '978.2*') match? I understand one * but two ** is confusing to me. Thank for the anticipated help.

[vinieme12 · Accepted solution]

the double asterisk ** doesn't change anything; this could just be a typo

'124.9**'  would  return same results as this '124.9*'

[anat · Accepted solution]

* matches any sequence of characters in wildmatch

as  Vinieme12 said seems it typo mistake.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/November2023/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Scripting/Conditiona...

[Ahidhar · Accepted solution]

In a wildmatch  (**)  makes no difference but while searching in folders it does .

[Chanty4u · Accepted solution]

double asterisks (**) in the pattern '124.9**' act as a single asterisk since the first asterisk is treated as a literal character and the second one acts as the wildcard. So, this pattern would match strings like '124.91', '124.912', '124.9123', and so on.

[omiaye]

Thanks everyone for your input, I greatly appreciate it.

@Chanty4u,

You brought up an interesting perspective, please what do you mean by first asterisk is treated as a  literal character?