Need to perform Wildcard (*,?, etc) search on a string using Regex

Question

I need to perform Wildcard (*, ?, etc.) search on a string. This is what I have done:

string input = \"Message\";
string pattern =          


        

Answer 1

From http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/wildcardtoregex.aspx:

public static string WildcardToRegex(string pattern)
{
    return "^" + Regex.Escape(pattern)
                      .Replace(@"\*", ".*")
                      .Replace(@"\?", ".")
               + "$";
}

So something like foo*.xls? will get transformed to ^foo.*\.xls.$.