Wildcards

Asterisk (*)
For example: a* All occurrences starting with a will be selected.

Words starting with (<)

To find words starting with a pair of characters use <.

Example: <ace will find words starting with ace

Words ending with (>)

To find words ending with a pair of characters use >

Example: ing> will find all words ending with ing

Question mark (?)

Example: (b?g) with find the words big,bag etc

Finding the number of occurrences of a particular letter({})

Example: s{1,2} will find and count all occurrences of s and ss.

Finding letters between the range([])

Example: b[b-z]g

Will find words with 2nd character between b and z.