to find all individuals whose name is Tom or tim, enter______ in the criteria row of the appropriate column.
a. T?m
B.T#m
C.T$m
D.T&m
These are called wild-card characters. They differ from one operating system/software to another. You would have to specify what software or operating system you are using.
If it is a regular expression, ? stands for one single character, which will cover Tim, Tom, Tam, Tum and Tem, as well as any other character between T and m, such as T;m, Tnm, etc. So among the four choices, T?m is the closest (for regular expressions).
To find all individuals whose name is Tom or Tim, you would enter "T?m" in the criteria row of the appropriate column.
The correct answer is A. T?m.
Explanation:
- In this case, we can use a wildcard character to represent any letter in place of the unknown letter. The question mark "?" is the wildcard character that represents one unknown character.
- By using "T?m" as the criteria, you are specifying that the name should start with "T," followed by any one character, and then ends with "m."
- This criteria will match both "Tom" and "Tim" because they meet the condition of starting with "T," ending with "m," and having only one character in between.