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Maximizer has plenty of features that our technical team regularly use that even I as the Marketing Manager have only just become aware of.
I’ve found them so helpful with my day-to-day use of Maximizer that I’m now using them whenever I can. Now I have decided to share these little nuggets of information with you in the hopes that you find them as useful as I have.
Some of our more technical users will know that Maximizer searches can use standard SQL wildcard characters to find records, but for the people who don’t (like me) here are a few examples of the wildcards that you can use:
One of the most common would be to find email addresses that look like email addresses.
Email Address = %@%.%
Other wildcards work too:
Character: % (percent)
Meaning: Represents zero or more characters
Example: bl% finds bl, black, blue, and blob
Character: _ (underscore)
Meaning: Represents a single character
Example: h_t finds hot, hat, and hit
Character: [ ] (square brackets)
Meaning: Represents any single character within the brackets
Example: h[oa]t finds hot and hat, but not hit
Character: ^ (caret or hat)
Meaning: Represents any character not in the brackets
Example: h[^oa]t finds hit, but not hot and hat
Character: – (dash or minus)
Meaning: Represents a range of characters
Example: c[a-b]t finds cat and cbt
NB: Maximizer always puts a % on the end of a search string
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