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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I feel comfortable on a variety of systems (UNIX, Windows, cross-compiled embedded systems, etc.) in a variety of languages, environments, and tools.
I have a particular affinity to computer language analysis, testing, as well as quality management.

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Use wildcard characters * and ? to compare strings

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