JWildcard

A collection of wildcard utilities. This library helps to convert wildcards to regex string. Wildcards can be declared using custom made rules.

Getting Started

Gradle build.gradle

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.yevdo:jwildcard:1.4'
}

Maven pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.yevdo</groupId>
  <artifactId>jwildcard</artifactId>
  <version>1.4</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

API

API documentation https://alenon.github.io/JWildcard/

Examples:

This wildcard:

"mywil?card*"

will be converted to this regex string:

"\Qmywil\E.\Qcard\E.*"

If you wish to convert wildcard to regex string use:

JWildcard.wildcardToRegex("mywil?card*");

Default wildcard rules are: "?" -> ".", "*" -> ".*", but you can change the default behaviour if you wish to, by simply defining the new rules.

JWildcard.wildcardToRegex(wildcard, rules, strict);

If you wish to check matching directly you can use this:

JWildcard.matches("mywild*", "mywildcard");

If wish to convert wildcard string to SQL like pattern:

JWildcard.wildcardToSqlPattern("?wild*Ca?rd*") // outputs this => _wild%Ca_rd%