Filter Symbols

Oracle is used as the basis for the Set Filter function, and some special characters should be used carefully.

Special characters that should be used with caution in a filter:

Symbol Issue
% (Percent symbol) Oracle perceives the percent sign as a wildcard. When the percent sign is entered as filtering criteria, the results are not filtered.
_ (Underscore) The following occurs when using underscores in a filter:
  • No filtering occurs if you set a filter with only an underscore.
  • Inserting an underscore before or after characters (e.g., _abc, abc_, or _abc_) returns all records that contain the underscore character.
  • Inserting an underscore between characters (i.e., a_b or a_b_c) returns records that contain the characters presented in the designated order that have any single character between them.