Use wildcard characters * and ? to compare strings

Andreas Gieriet

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20 Feb 2012CPOL

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How about transforming first into a Regex and then letting the Regex do the work? E.g.:public static Regex GetRegex(string wildcard){ string pattern = Regex.Replace(wildcard, @"([^?*]+)?([?*])?", m => Regex.Escape(m.Groups[1].Value) +...

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1. Use wildcard characters * and ? to compare strings

20 Feb 2012PIEBALDconsult

This is much simpler: fewer new strings created, no recursion. And it allows the caller to specify how to do a string comparison.public static boolWildcardMatch( this string Subject, string Pattern, System.StringComparison...

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6 May 2010supercat9

Using the Substring operation repeatedly as you do is apt to be very slow. Better would be to pass the starting indices and lengths of the two strings as parameters. That would require a manual loop to replace the String.Trim function, but it would avoid the need to create lots of new string...

3. Use wildcard Characters * and ? to Compare Strings

26 Jul 2017PrzemekBenz

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How to use wildcard characters & and ? to compare strings

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