Hi,
Does anyone know if you can use wildcards in IDE search?
If affirmative how does this work?
You could use RegEx to search. Click the “gear” button next to the search field and select “Use RegEx”.
Then something like this finds anything that starts with "e’ and ends with “Window”:
e.*Window
using the search pane at the bottom ?
yes - click the gear and enable “Use Regex”
using the filter about the navigator on the left ?
no - although there are some things you can do to narrow filtering
you can put a filter string followed by “type:” and then the name of a type (constant, method, property, delegate, window) and this can be a commas separated list (no spaces though)
ie/ in the navigator filter this is valid
window type:propertyThank you for the answers, really helpfull 
@Norman, I learned something really new I didn’t know about the search versatility in the navigator.
@Paul, Is the regex usage explained somewhere in the documentation?
you’re example was a start, but the regex stuff is something I have been struggling with
its just a plain old regex
only real limitation is that it searches one line, not multiples lines, at a time so patterns that expect to match across lines wont work
OK, thanks Norman for the help.
It is noted in the docs that you can use RegEx. http://developer.xojo.com/userguide/find-errors-messages-panels
RegEx is a bit strange to everyone but @Kem Tekinay . The RegEx class has some information, but Xojo just uses standard RegEx for the most part so any of the many tutorials you can find on the web also apply.
This is a great site for learning about regular expressions:
@Kem, thanks I will start making the time to go trough this. it’s about time I get a handle on this.