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 need to convert your wildcard expression to a regular expression. For example:

    private bool WildcardMatch(String s, String wildcard, bool case_sensitive)
    {
        // Replace the * with an .* and the ? with a dot. Put ^ at the
        // beginning and a $ at the end
        String pattern = "^" + Regex.Escape(wildcard).Replace(@"\*", ".*").Replace(@"\?", ".") + "$";

        // Now, run the Regex as you already know
        Regex regex;
        if(case_sensitive)
            regex = new Regex(pattern);
        else
            regex = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        return(regex.IsMatch(s));
    }