glob pattern matching in .NET

Question

Is there a built-in mechanism in .NET to match patterns other than Regular Expressions? I\'d like to match using UNIX style (glob) wildcards (* = any number of any characte

Answer 1

Just for the sake of completeness. Since 2016 in dotnet core there is a new nuget package called Microsoft.Extensions.FileSystemGlobbing that supports advanced globing paths. (Nuget Package)

some examples might be, searching for wildcard nested folder structures and files which is very common in web development scenarios.

• wwwroot/app/**/*.module.js
• wwwroot/app/**/*.js

This works somewhat similar with what .gitignore files use to determine which files to exclude from source control.