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

All upper code is not correct to the end.

This is because when searching zz*foo* or zz* you will not get correct results.

And if you search "abcd*" in "abcd" in TotalCommander will he find a abcd file so all upper code is wrong.

Here is the correct code.

public string WildcardToRegex(string pattern)
{             
    string result= Regex.Escape(pattern).
        Replace(@"\*", ".+?").
        Replace(@"\?", "."); 

    if (result.EndsWith(".+?"))
    {
        result = result.Remove(result.Length - 3, 3);
        result += ".*";
    }

    return result;
}