Thread:Help talk:Search operators/Using the like operator for page names

I have been trying to use the ~ like operator for page names. For example, to find a page name that starts with NDC, I would do I can get the like syntax to work for parameters, but not page names. Am I using the wrong syntax or does this simply not work with page names. (Let's not argue for the moment why I would want to do such a thing in the first place :-) )