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

Based on previous posts, I threw together a C# class:

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class FileWildcard
{
    Regex mRegex;

    public FileWildcard(string wildcard)
    {
        string pattern = string.Format("^{0}$", Regex.Escape(wildcard)
            .Replace(@"\*", ".*").Replace(@"\?", "."));
        mRegex = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Singleline);
    }
    public bool IsMatch(string filenameToCompare)
    {
        return mRegex.IsMatch(filenameToCompare);
    }
}

Using it would go something like this:

FileWildcard w = new FileWildcard("*.txt");
if (w.IsMatch("Doug.Txt"))
   Console.WriteLine("We have a match");

The matching is NOT the same as the System.IO.Directory.GetFiles() method, so don't use them together.