Using Wildcards

Wildcards can be used with the LIKE operator (and with the = operator when comparing attributes of type string).

For example:

  • ‘?’ or ‘_’ matches any single character.
  • ‘*’ or ‘%’ matches zero or more characters.

Wildcards can be escaped using the \ character. For example, “\%”.

Escape characters can be escaped using “\\” which evaluates to matching “\”.

If escaping a non-wildcard character, the escape character will be ignored. For example, “\abc" evaluates to matching “abc”.

Note: The * wildcard can be used in selection clauses only for non-paginated queries (that is, when the PageSize parameter is specified as 0 (zero) when calling the following functions: queryProcessInstances, queryProcessInstancesAlt, queryProcessTemplates, and queryProcessTemplatesAlt).