using wildcard in IF action

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Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out how can we use wildcard in IF control? I tried this but the result is always false

%items = '<img class*' OR items = '<img width*'%

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Srini007 3,490 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @nicklim

You can choose instead of equal(=), choose Contains which it will check if the value is present in the string

You can remove * wild character and place only <img class

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Hi @Srini007

Thanks for your feedback.

My current flow uses Contains operator and multiple elseif statements which I am trying to avoid but it is not a big deal.

Just wondering if we can use wildcard if I want to go with the abovementioned method which is
%items = '<img class*' OR items = '<img width*'%
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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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No, you cannot use wildcards in IF. It does not support it in any way. The only way to do what you want to do is to either use Contains or StartsWith like this:

%StartsWith(items,'<img class',False) OR Contains(items,'<img width',False)%

I've included both StartsWith and Contains in there for the sake of demonstrating both of them, but you can also make them both use the same operand. The 'False' is there to indicate that it should not ignore case (i.e. the condition is case sensitive).

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