>> Well, I think that "*" as a term is pretty obviously 'any value'. That is
>> identical in semantics to what you wanted, right?
>
> * is masking. For some fields masking does not make sense. Year, ranges
> and such.
* matches zero or more characters.
For any field, "*" will match anything, no matter your internal
representation of the date.
> case, since obvioulsy * is special and does not _really_ do "full
> truncation".
I don't follow what you mean by 'full truncation' as opposed to what is
being described.
Rob
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