Wildcard characters

The following is a list of wildcard characters that Adobe Dreamweaver supports, along with the strings to specify them and descriptions of their usage.

Wildcard	Escape string	Description
Wildcard	`\*`	Skip all characters in the rule until the character that follows the wildcard is found. For example, use `<MMTInstance:Editable name="\*">` to match all tags of this type that have the name attribute specified.
Wildcard with escape character	`\e*x`	Where `x` is the escape character. This is the same as the wildcard, except that an escape character can be specified. The character following any escape character is ignored. This lets the character following the wildcard appear in the string without matching the criteria to end wildcard processing. For example, `/\e*\\/` is used to recognize a JavaScript regular expression that starts and ends with a forward slash (/) and can contain forward slashes that are preceded by a backslash (\). Because the backslash is the code coloring escape character, you must precede it with a backslash when you specify it in code coloring XML.
Optional whitespace	`\s*`	This matches zero or more white space or newline characters. For example, `<!--\s*#include` is used to match ASP include directives whether they have any white space preceding the `#include` token or not because either case is valid. The white space wildcards match any combination of white space and newline characters.
Required whitespace	`\s+`	This matches one or more white space or newline characters. For example, `<!--#include\s+virtual` is used to match ASP include directives with any combination of white space between `#include` and `virtual`. White space must be specified between these tokens, but it can be any combination of valid white space characters. The white space wildcards match any combination of white space and newline characters.