Wildcards
Filters with Wildcards consist typically of a start text, an end text and any text between them. The * character (Wildcard) stands for the text between the defined start/end markers. All defined wildcard filters are case insensitive, they are converted to lowercase internally.
WebSite-Watcher supports the following 3 types with the restriction that only one Wildcard is allowed per filter expression:
- *EndText
This form filters everything from the page beginning to the first occurrence of "EndText".
For example: *Daily News
- StartText*EndText
This form filters all text areas which begin with "StartText" and end with "EndText".
For example: Downloads:*Publisher
- StartText*
This form filters everything from the last occurrence of "StartText" to the end of the page.
For example: Users online*