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How to obtain a words' list relating to word containing wildcard *, ?, #

User: "EL75"
New Altair Community Member
Updated by Jocelyn
Hello rapidminer community,
Hope you're doing well in this crisis period...

Here's my topic, and thank you all for your help and advice. 
As said in the subject, I'd like to obtain a words' list relating to words containing wildcard *, ?, #.
The reason is that I’m trying to migrate a dictionary from a platform to another. 
In my original dictionary, I have words with wildcard *, ?, # 
The new platform doesn’t accept such characters and force me to create a single line for each declination. 
These wildcards can be associated with part of words or in word sequences.
Using a snowball « * » allow me - in my present dictionary - to capture all part of texts relating to these variations (pluriel, gender, grammatical declinaison, etc.).

For example, SUPPORT* will mean SUPPORT, SUPPORTS, SUPPORTING, SUPPORTIVE, SUPPORTER, etc.
While the following word pattern: *SUPPORT* will also substitute all words with the substring "SUPPORT" in it, such as UNSUPPORTEDLY, UNSUPPORTED, etc.
An expression that includes several words may also be substituted by joining the various words with underline characters. For example, the expression "going out"  GO*_OUT.
 
But my needs go beyond the snowball as wildcards:  
- « ? » is used to replace any unique character in a word, 
- « # » is used to replace any number « ## » for two numbers, etc.

Therefore, I need to migrate my actual dictionary (French words) that contains thousands of rows with ITEMS containing wildcards:  is there a solution that could allow me to give, for each such word, all the corresponding words?

I believe that this is a tricky thing to solve.... but I'm stuck in the process and can't move forward. 
I would be so happy to find a solution :)

Thank you so much in advance for any help.

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