Question

Is there a built-in mechanism in .NET to match patterns other than regular expressions (regex)? I’d like to match using Unix-style (glob) wildcards (* = any number of any character).

I’d like to use this for a end-user facing control. I fear that permitting all regex capabilities will be very confusing.

Answer 1

I found the actual code for you:

Regex.Escape( wildcardExpression ).Replace( @'\*', '.*' ).Replace( @'\?', '.' );