Wood", but not "Atwood" or "Woodbury". The pattern wood* will match "Wood" or "Woodbury", but not "Atwood". The pattern *wood* will match "Atwood", "Wood", and "Woodbury".

Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions are powerful text matching facilities that use a set of special characters to describe matching rules. By default, text fields on the search form are contains filters, so a search for wood will match "Atwood", "Wood", "Woodbury", and more. You can make more restrictive filters by using pattern matching characters. ^ matches the beginning of the field, so to specify that a surname value must begin with "wood", enter ^wood. $ matches the end of the field, so to specify that a surname value must end with "wood", enter wood$.

You can use other pattern matching characters in the name fields.

A period (.) matches any character, so a search for mill.t matches "Millet" and "Millit".
A plus sign (+) indicates that the last character may occur one or more times, so mil+et matches "Milet" and "Millet".
An asterisk (*) indicates that the last character may occur zero or more times, so millet* matches "Millet" and "Millett".
Brackets indicate alternative characters, so mille[nr] matches "Millen" and "Miller".
Parentheses indicate alternate terms, so (bill|william) matches "Bill" and "William".

Diacritic search is enabled, meaning if an "a" is entered in a field, the "a" will match á, à, â, ä, ã, å, and ą as well as the uppercase variations Á, À, Â, Ä, Ã, Å, and Ą. Inversely, if an "ä" is used, it will match all variations of a.

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