Home/ Questions/Q 125757
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-11T05:12:35+00:00

I wonder if there is an easy way to check if two strings match

  • 0

I wonder if there is an easy way to check if two strings match by excluding certain characters in the strings. See example below.

I can easily write such a method by writing a regular expression to find the ‘wild card’ characters, and replace them with a common character. Then compare the two strings str1 and str2. I am not looking for such implementations, but like to know whether there are any .Net framework classes that can take care of this. Seems like a common need, but I couldn’t find any such method.

For example:

string str1 = 'ABC-EFG';     string str2 = 'ABC*EFG';

The two strings must be declared equal.

Thanks!

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Sorry but I think either regex, or replacing the ‘wildcard’ characters with a common character are going to be your best solution. Basically, the answers that you stated you didn’t want to receive.

    • 0