A number sign (#) represents a space or word boundary.
In the search item, it may only be used medially. In the preceding environment or following environment, it may be used anywhere.
To find all word-final consonants, use the following pattern:
[C]/*_#
To find all words ending with a consonant followed by a word beginning with a consonant, use the following pattern:
[C]#[C]/*_*
When searching data from a data source of type SFM, using the number sign in the search item will never find a match unless the parsing option for the data source is set to Do not parse any fields on the Standard Format Data Source Properties dialog box. That is because using the other parsing options will cause Phonology Assistant to treat spaces in phonetic data as parsing markers and not as data to include in Phonology Assistant records.