# Wildcard Star

Although both EMS and SmartSockets both interpret the star (`*`) character as a wildcard, they differ in its semantics. In this aspect, the mapping is not one-to-one.

In EMS, star can match any whole token of a name, but not part of a token. In SmartSockets, star can match part of an token—for example, `/foo/b*/baz` matches `/foo/bar/baz` and `/foo/box/baz`.

If you are familiar with SmartSockets wildcards but not EMS wildcards, see Wildcards.

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