[BioC] Using wildcard with BiomaRt:getBM

[Daren Tan]

Hi,  
 
I need to obtain information via biomaRt for all members of interleukin. Trying the following command failed, apparently, getBM doesn't support regexp. I could download all the gene names and filter locally, but this will stress the hosting server and prolong communication time. 
 
getBM(attributes=c("hgnc_symbol, "start_position"), filter="hgnc_symbol", values="IL.*", mart=ensembl)