Wildcard in Containing text field?

Question

Just up against this again today with FLP 8.5 build 2947 and surprised myself that text*text didn't work as I had expected, using the Boolean option (or, unsurprisingly Plain text).

Specifically, with the Containing text set to: dpte*_kickoff_meeting.htm
no matches were returned,
yet when setting it to: dpte _kickoff_meeting.htm
resulted in 2 hits:
dpte_rm_kickoff_meeting.htm
dpte_dd_kickoff_meeting.htm

What am I missing or is this just working as intended since the characters involve punctuation rather than letters? If so, it's not intuitive.

Will the the DOS expression / wildcard option be an option in the Containing text field in FLP 9?

Answer 1

That should work just fine with the default settings. Please check that you have 'Allow wildcards (*,?)' switched on in the Options tab:

DOS Expressions/Wildcards will be allowed in the next version.

Answer 2

Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard!

Did not have Allow wildcards selected on Options tab.