Wildcard matching

[tank104]

Do you think it would be easy to add wildcard matching to this? Any tips how it might be achieved?

Thinking * for any number of characters, and ? For a single character.

[mganss]

Unfortunately, it's not easy to extend the algorithm to wildcards. Perhaps you could search for all the non-wildcard substrings of your patterns and then perform additional checks to see if the matched substrings are in the correct positions. For example, if you have "ab*cd*ef", then search for "ab", "cd", "ef" and if there's a match then check if the matched indexes are in the correct order, meaning you'd have a match for the whole wildcard pattern.

[tank104]

Thanks thats a good idea, we can try exploring that.