Wildcard matching in Java

Question

I\'m writing a simple debugging program that takes as input simple strings that can contain stars to indicate a wildcard match-any

*.wav  // matches 

        

Answer 1

There is small utility method in Apache Commons-IO library: org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils#wildcardMatch(), which you can use without intricacies of the regular expression.

API documentation could be found in: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.5/org/apache/commons/io/FilenameUtils.html#wildcardMatch(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String)