Text Searching and Wildcards
SAP R/3 also allows you to search text fields by using wildcards. For example, if you don't know a product number for the material you need but do know it was something for a motor, you could use a wildcard to find the material code (see Figure 8.6).
Plain English
Wildcard In poker, this is a card you can use to represent any card. In SAP R/3, a wildcard is a character you can use to represent any character or series of characters.
To learn how to use a wildcard, follow these steps to find the material number for an unknown material:
From the Selection of Search Method list dialog box appears (see Figure 8.6).
Figure 8.6. You use the wildcards in the Restrict Value Range dialog box.
For the example described earlier, ...
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