Setting

Function

Single Character Wildcard

When scanning through the ascii data, this character can  be used to stand in for any single character.

For example, let's say you use Fire?

That would tell the GetASCII module to recognize any word that began with Fire and had one extra letter on the end. So, it would recognize Fires or Fired but would not recognize Fire alone.

As another example, let's say you use ??/??/????

That would tell GetSerial to recognize any date stamp in the two digit month, two digit day, four digit year configuration.

Multiple Character Wildcard

When scanning through the ascii data, this character can  be used to stand in for any character or group of characters.

For example, let's say you use Fire*

That would tell the GetASCII module to recognize any instance of the word Fire, regardless of whether there are any characters after the word. So, it would recognize Fire, Fired, Fires, Firehouse or Fireman and it would also recognize 'Fire' in phrases like Fire Sale or Fire Department.

As another example, let's say you use *age*

That would tell GetSerial to recognize any reference to the three letters age close to each other, regardless of whether that was in the word PageGate or NotePage or ageless or damage. Any instance of the three characters together will be recognized.

End of Record Symbol

This character stands for the end of record symbol.

ASCII Value Delimiter

This symbol is used to help represent non-printable characters that normally can't  be typed like horizontal tabs, carriage returns and line feeds. This character is always followed three numbers which  represent the decimal value for a character.

For example, this represents a carriage-return: \013

For a full list of ascii codes, visit http://www.asciitable.com/

Apply

Applies all changes made to the Symbols.