Wildcards

#Important Tag Concept: Wildcards

When dealing with tags, a wildcard allows you to alter several tags that match the TagID up to a certain point marked by a ?. For example, say that your pick has 3 tags on it "Helper.SetCastNon", "Helper.SetCastBoo", and "Helper.BookRead". Here are some examples of how wildcards would react to that set of tags.

~ This wildcard is at the start, so it catches every tag of the Helper group,
~ deleting all 3 Helper tags.
perform delete[Helper.?]

~ Helper.SetCastNon and Helper.SetCastBoo both match what is defined before the Wildcard,
~ so they are deleted. Helper.BookRead does not match, so it is not deleted.
perform delete[Helper.Set?]

~ Only Helper.SetCastNon matches what is defined before the Wildcard,
~ so it is deleted and the other two remain
perform delete[Helper.SetCastN?]

Wildcards can only be used with tag IDs, not tag groups, and they work for most tag functions except "assign". There is no equivalent when working with fields.

For more information on wildcards, check out our Authoring Kit Wiki.