Re: Using wildcards in string comparison

FROM : Jiva DeVoe
DATE : Mon Apr 11 07:58:57 2005

Sounds like you probably want some regexp capabilities.

I think (have not searched google) that omni has some frameworks that 
do this.  If not, I think MOKit does.

On Apr 10, 2005, at 1:06 PM, jjoonathan wrote:

> I am making an app which allows an array to be searched by a string 
> which contains wildcards (the *, and ?, etc). I am currently using the 
> isLike: method of NSString, but I ran into a problem. I want the 
> search string to be able to contain [ and ] characters that are not 
> part of the pattern. So, @"*[ABC]*" would match @"123[ABC]456", not 
> @"123[A]456", @"123[B]456", or @"123[C]456". Any ideas? Is there 
> another method which allows comparisons just by wildcards?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> jjoonathan
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