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

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 is just a test", "*just*", CompareMethod.Text))
{
  Console.WriteLine("This matched!");
}

If you use CompareMethod.Text it will compare case-insensitive. For case-sensitive comparison, you can use CompareMethod.Binary.

More info here: http://www.henrikbrinch.dk/Blog/2012/02/14/Wildcard-matching-in-C

MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualbasic.compilerservices.operators.likestring%28v=vs.100%29.ASPX