Java Wildcard to Regex wildcardAsRegex(String wildcard)

Description

convert a wild card containing * and ?

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
wildcard	wildcard string describing a file.

Return

regex string that could be fed to Pattern.compile

Declaration

public static String wildcardAsRegex(String wildcard) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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public class Main {
    /**
     * convert a wild card containing * and ? to the equivalent regex
     *
     * @param wildcard wildcard string describing a file.
     * @return regex string that could be fed to Pattern.compile
     */
    public static String wildcardAsRegex(String wildcard) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < wildcard.length(); i++) {
            final char c = wildcard.charAt(i);
            switch (c) {
            case '*':
                sb.append(".*?");
                break;
            case '?':
                sb.append(".");
                break;
            // chars that have magic regex meaning. They need quoting to be taken literally
            case '$':
            case '(':
            case ')':
            case '+':
            case '-':
            case '.':
            case '[':
            case '\\':
            case ']':
            case '^':
            case '{':
            case '|':
            case '}':
                sb.append('\\');
                sb.append(c);
                break;
            default:
                sb.append(c);
                break;
            }
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. wildcard2Regex(final String wildcard)
2. wildcard2regexp(String wildcard)
3. wildcardAsRegex(String patternWithWildcards)
4. wildcardToJavaRegex(String expr)
5. wildcardToJavaRegexp(String expr)
6. wildcardToRegex(CharSequence s)
7. wildcardToRegex(final String input)