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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...
20 Feb 2012Andreas Gieriet
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) +...
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...
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