title: What characters are used as wildcards in SAS?
body: <p>I'm a Stata user who is learning SAS. What characters are used as wildcards in SAS? In Stata it is the asterisk. I read that in SAS you can use <code>:</code> as a wildcard for suffixes, but I need the same for prefixes. Does that exist?</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I am trying to find any variable in my data set that includes the string "findme", in Stata I would do</p>
  
  <p><code>list *findme*</code></p>
  
  <p>to specify that the variable could have numbers or characters either before or after the string "findme".</p>
  
  <p>What is the SAS equivalent? Thank you.</p>