Allow Wildcards on all Searches in Service Studio 
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It would be great if we could use wildcards in all searches inside Service Studio to help refine searching for something.

Example scenarios:
Sometimes I want to search for a function but don't know the module it is being called from or the exact name of the function only parts of it.

For example a function called GetProductsListFilters and I search for "Product Filters" the search doesn't return any results.

So I try to refine my search using "Products Filters" and still returns no result.

I end up searching for "Products" or "Filters" and I'm left with a large list to filter through with my eyes.

It would be great if I could use a wildcard such as * to help refine my search. 

So when I search for "Product*filters"  I would have a more refined search that would eventually return a list such as GetProductCategoryFilters, GetProductsListFilters, etc...

Another case is that sometimes functions and modules have technical names related to clients specific business language and it's tricky to remember how some of them are written correctly.

Since the asterisk wildcard is used for multiple character searching it would be great if one could also filter for single character to help define the search to less results in these cases. 

Strictly as an example if one was to use the ? wildcard to refine the search for b?ll it would return ball, bell, bill, bull and exclude words such as bankroll.

This would also be a great addition to the Application Search and Open from Environment module search.

If an application is called Product Core Widgets and I search for "Product Widgets" no results are returned. 

Same happens with the Open from Environment module search when I want to find a module that I know it's a reactive widgets module and related to products but I am not able to find it using the string "product rcw" to return a list of all modules containing those words. In the present moment even if the module is called Product_RCW, since it has the underscore between the words the search does not return that module.

I would find that using wildcards, or even regular expressions in search would benefit for a more productive workflow and help immensely to refine these kind of searches.