# Search API '/u/search and wild cards or features?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-api-u-search-and-wild-cards-or-features/126171
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8월 19, 2019, 1:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-api-u-search-and-wild-cards-or-features/126171 "2019-08-19T13:50:50Z")
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### Author:  [@alank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alank)
#### Post date: [8월 19, 2019, 1:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-api-u-search-and-wild-cards-or-features/126171/1 "2019-08-19T13:50:50Z")
I’m attempting to use the Discourse search via /u/search/… and unless I’m mistaken it doesn’t offer wildcards or defaults to partial matches within names, for example I have the following users…
\*andrew
\*marian
\*mark
If I search on 'an" I only get ‘andrew’
If I search on 'ma" I get both ‘mark’ and ‘marian’
Are there any wild-card features to find on a search of ‘an’ to both get ‘andrew’ and ‘marian’ ?
My full query in JS is…
```plaintext
this.DiscourseAPI.get(`u/search/users.json?term=${term}&include_groups=false&include_mentionable_groups=false&include_messageable_groups=false&topic_allowed_users=false`
```
Where `{term}` is replaces by the user search string (eg. ‘an’ or ‘ma’)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [8월 21, 2019, 4:15오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-api-u-search-and-wild-cards-or-features/126171/2 "2019-08-21T04:15:03Z")
We would need trigrams do do that efficiently, at the moment we use full text search.
The restriction is in place cause we don’t want to scan a table with potentially millions of rows.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [4월 12, 2024, 4:57오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-api-u-search-and-wild-cards-or-features/126171/6 "2024-04-12T04:57:22Z")