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.