# Is there a wildcard for ANY WORD?

**URL:** <https://forum.xbench.net/t/is-there-a-wildcard-for-any-word/344>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/is-there-a-wildcard-for-any-word/344 "2018-03-22T17:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![indeedless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/indeedless/32/77_2.png) [@indeedless](https://forum.xbench.net/u/indeedless)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/is-there-a-wildcard-for-any-word/344/1 "2018-03-22T17:14:34Z")

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Hello, Hivemind!

Is there a way to select ANY word by using a wildcard in the search field?

I need to choose all expressions with any word in brackets: “(anyword)”, excluding expressions with numbers in brackets: “(1)”.

I can only think of searching just a bracket: “(” or “)”, but this way the list becomes too long and includes every single expression with bracket.

Thank you, I would appreciate any given hints!

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**Author:** ![omartin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/omartin/32/82_2.png) [@omartin](https://forum.xbench.net/u/omartin)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/is-there-a-wildcard-for-any-word/344/2 "2018-03-23T11:32:11Z")

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Hi,

The following regular expression can be used to search a word in brackets that contains characters considered alphabetic in any language:

`\(<[:letter:]+>\)`  
Search mode: Regular Expressions

If you want to search more than one word in brackets excluding numbers, use the following regex syntax:

`\((<[:letter:]+>[:space:]*)+\)`  
Search mode: Regular Expressions

Regards,

Oscar.

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**Author:** ![indeedless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/indeedless/32/77_2.png) [@indeedless](https://forum.xbench.net/u/indeedless)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/is-there-a-wildcard-for-any-word/344/3 "2018-03-23T12:16:15Z")

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Hello,

Thank you so much, Oscar!

That did help!