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

I wrote a FileSelector class that does selection of files based on filenames. It also selects files based on time, size, and attributes. If you just want filename globbing then you express the name in forms like "*.txt" and similar. If you want the other parameters then you specify a boolean logic statement like "name = *.xls and ctime < 2009-01-01" - implying an .xls file created before January 1st 2009. You can also select based on the negative: "name != *.xls" means all files that are not xls.

Check it out. Open source. Liberal license. Free to use elsewhere.