Wildcards not working in IF formula?

[HalPlz]

I have a drop down list with 3 possibilities:
Yes
No
"?*"


And then an if formula checking which is chosen:

"IF(A1=A2, 1, 2)

The Yes and No options work, but the wildcard one, which should mean any text, doesn't work. I want the third option (currently "?*") to be either yes or no.

[daddylonglegs]

Wildcards don't work with comparison operators like =

....but they can be used as the criteria in a COUNTIF function so this should work

=IF(OR(COUNTIF(A1,A2),COUNTIF(A2,A1)), 1, 2)