Answer by Maxim Zabolotskikh for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search...
The most accepted answer works fine for most cases and can be used in most scenarios:"^" + Regex.Escape(pattern).Replace(@"\*", ".*").Replace(@"\?", ".") +"$";However if you allow escaping in you input...
View ArticleAnswer by Tejasvi Hegde for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
I think @Dmitri has nice solution at Matching strings with wildcardhttps://stackoverflow.com/a/30300521/1726296Based on his solution, I have created two extension methods. (credit goes to him)May be...
View ArticleAnswer by VirtualVDX for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
You may want to use WildcardPattern from System.Management.Automation assembly. See my answer here.
View ArticleAnswer by user3816530 for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
All upper code is not correct to the end.This is because when searching zz*foo* or zz* you will not get correct results.And if you search "abcd*" in "abcd" in TotalCommander will he find a abcd file so...
View ArticleAnswer by Adam Szabo for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
You can do a simple wildcard mach without RegEx using a Visual Basic function called LikeString.using Microsoft.VisualBasic;using Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices;if (Operators.LikeString("This...
View ArticleAnswer by deerchao for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a string...
Windows and *nux treat wildcards differently. *, ? and . are processed in a very complex way by Windows, one's presence or position would change another's meaning. While *nux keeps it simple, all it...
View ArticleAnswer by Camarada for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a string...
You must escape special Regex symbols in input wildcard pattern (for example pattern *.txt will equivalent to ^.*\.txt$)So slashes, braces and many special symbols must be replaced with @"\"+ s, where...
View ArticleAnswer by carlos357 for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
You need to convert your wildcard expression to a regular expression. For example: private bool WildcardMatch(String s, String wildcard, bool case_sensitive) { // Replace the * with an .* and the ?...
View ArticleAnswer by Mark Lakata for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
The correct regular expression formulation of the glob expression d* is ^d, which means match anything that starts with d. string input = "Message"; string pattern = @"^d"; Regex regex = new...
View ArticleAnswer by Gabe for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a string...
From http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/wildcardtoregex.aspx:public static string WildcardToRegex(string pattern){ return "^"+ Regex.Escape(pattern) .Replace(@"\*", ".*") .Replace(@"\?",...
View ArticleAnswer by Anders Zommarin for Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a...
d* means that it should match zero or more "d" characters. So any string is a valid match. Try d+ instead!In order to have support for wildcard patterns I would replace the wildcards with the RegEx...
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I need to perform Wildcard (*, ?, etc.) search on a string.This is what I have done:string input = "Message";string pattern = "d*";Regex regex = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);if...
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