CADaver-
Here are just 2 ways I would find wild card characters adding to FIND's functionality:
1.
Well, let's say I have mtext reading something like this:
"Sta. 100+50 This is a block"
"Sta. 999+50 This is a block"
By searching for "*This is a block" I will catch all of the entities ending in "This is a block" and replace them with whatever I want. OK, so you knew that already. But Find and Replace does not do that as far as I know. I have needed to do that.
2.
It also helps me catch return characters. If i have a 2-line mtext object that reads:
"My name
is CADaver"
I cannot search for "My name is CADaver" if their is a line return character between "name" and "is". I CAN search for "My name" and "is CADaver", but this is not useful when I want to replace the whole string of text with something new (which I actually do).