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Wildcard

Matching strings to wildcards pattern is useful and often needed. Using regular expression may help, but is not top performance solution. Wildcard class matches strings to wildcard patterns using * and ? characters, and that does very fast and good! Here are some examples:

Wildcard.match("CfgOptions.class", "*C*g*cl*");     	// true   
Wildcard.match("CfgOptions.class", "*g*c**s");      	// true!   
Wildcard.match("CfgOptions.class", "??gOpti*c?ass");    // true   
Wildcard.match("CfgOpti*class", "*gOpti\\*class");  	// true   
Wildcard.match("CfgOptions.class", "C*ti*c?a?*");   	// true

That is not all! Wildcard class supports path matching wildcards. It matches path against pattern using *, ? and ** wildcards. Both path and the pattern are tokenized on path separators (\ and /). '**' represents deep tree wildcard, as in Ant.

Wildcard.matchPath("/foo/soo/doo/boo", "/**/bo*");     		// true   
Wildcard.matchPath("/foo/one/two/three/boo", "**/t?o/**");	// true