Regular Expression Wildcard Matching

Question

I have a list of about 120 thousand english words (basically every word in the language).

I need a regular expression that would allow searching through these words

Answer 1

1. Replace all '?' characters with '\w'
2. Replace all '*' characters with '\w*'

The '*' operator repeats the previous item '.' (any character) 0 or more times.

This assumes that none of the words contain '.', '*', and '?'.

This is a good reference

http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html