A WWID term is a sequence of hex digits delimited by a period, a dash or the beginning or end of the string "%" can be used any number of times, up to the legal length of a term, to wildcard a single hex digit "*" can be used once within a term to wildcard 0 to N hex digits, but sequences of "*" will be collapsed to a single use and count as 1 Legal wildcard uses: 50*1000180b1 *.*FE1.%%01.80A% PGC0.5%%0-1*1-0011-B15* Illegal wildcard uses: 50*001*080b1 - too many multi-char wildcards 5000.%%%%%.0001.80A0 - too many single-char wildcards