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Truncation and Wildcard |
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Two types of truncation symbols are used in Cuesta's periodical database EBSCOhost. The first, represented by a question mark, is called a wildcard. Added anywhere in a word, it will find all the words that can replace the symbol with a letter. The symbol used to find all endings of a particular word stem uses an asterisk. |
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| ne?t | will
return words like neat, next or nest. ? is used as the wildcard symbol, because it can be used for any letter . |
| environ* | will
return records on environment, environments, environmental. * is used as the truncation symbol. |
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