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Wildcard Characters – Marine Vessel Definitions

Wildcard characters are automatically added to all text based searches. However, if you wish to further refine your search you may use two wildcard characters. The underscore '_' character replaces a single character. Example: J_pan searches for Japan, Jbpan, Jcpan and so on. The percent '%' character can be used to replace any combination of characters. Example: Ja% would return both Japan and Jacksonville.

Wildcard characters are automatically added to all text based searches. However, if you wish to further refine your search you may use two wildcard characters. The underscore ‘_’ character replaces a single character. Example: J_pan searches for Japan, Jbpan, Jcpan and so on. The percent ‘%’ character can be used to replace any combination of characters. Example: Ja% would return both Japan and Jacksonville.