Sometimes, searching by partial part number returns too many parts, or you have specific requirements for part number matching. In these cases, you can use wildcards to refine your search.
The character
*matches any character sequence (including zero characters)The character
?matches any single character.
Wildcards can be used anywhere within a part number. Using wildcards to find the middle of a part number is unnecessary - leading and trailing wildcards are added automatically. For example, *74LS25* returns the same results as 74LS25
If you add one or more wildcards to a term, no other wildcards are added automatically. This can be used to do prefix searches. For example, lv40 finds parts that contain lv40 anywhere in the part number, whereas lv40* finds only parts that start with lv40.
Note that searching for lv40* will return parts such as lv-4000 because of the way some non-alphanumeric characters, such as - or . are processed by the search engine.
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