Re: Using wildcards in string comparison

FROM : Charilaos Skiadas
DATE : Mon Apr 11 08:34:04 2005

On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:58 AM, Jiva DeVoe wrote:

> 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?


You can try escaping the brackets, i.e. maybe this might work: 
@"123\[ABC\]456". Haven't tried it though, just the obvious guess.

>> Thanks in advance,
>> jjoonathan
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