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 must escape special Regex symbols in input wildcard pattern (for example pattern *.txt will equivalent to ^.*\.txt$) So slashes, braces and many special symbols must be replaced with @"\" + s, where s - special Regex symbol.