# Wildcards * and >

To understand the rules for inheritance of properties, it is important to understand the use of the two wildcards, * and >.

- The wildcard > by itself matches any destination name.
- When > is mixed with text, it matches one or more trailing elements. For example:

       foo.>

  Matches `foo.bar`, `foo.boo`, `foo.boo.bar`, and `foo.bar.boo`.

- The wildcard * means that any token can be in the place of *. For example:

       foo.*

  Matches `foo.bar` and `foo.boo`, but not `foo.bar.boo`.

       foo.*.bar

  Matches `foo.boo.bar`, but not `foo.bar`.

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