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Checks if name matches pattern with and wildcards
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/*
* Filename: FileUtil.cs
* Product: Versioning Controlled Build
* Solution: BuildAutoIncrement
* Project: Shared
* Description: File utility methods.
* Copyright: Julijan ?ribar, 2004-2007
*
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*
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*
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*/
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace BuildAutoIncrement {
/// <summary>
/// A set of file utilities.
/// </summary>
public struct FileUtil {
/// <summary>
/// Checks if name matches pattern with '?' and '*' wildcards.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filename">
/// Name to match.
/// </param>
/// <param name="pattern">
/// Pattern to match to.
/// </param>
/// <returns>
/// <c>true</c> if name matches pattern, otherwise <c>false</c>.
/// </returns>
public static bool FilenameMatchesPattern(string filename, string pattern) {
// prepare the pattern to the form appropriate for Regex class
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(pattern);
// remove superflous occurences of "?*" and "*?"
while (sb.ToString().IndexOf("?*") != -1) {
sb.Replace("?*", "*");
}
while (sb.ToString().IndexOf("*?") != -1) {
sb.Replace("*?", "*");
}
// remove superflous occurences of asterisk '*'
while (sb.ToString().IndexOf("**") != -1) {
sb.Replace("**", "*");
}
// if only asterisk '*' is left, the mask is ".*"
if (sb.ToString().Equals("*"))
pattern = ".*";
else {
// replace '.' with "\."
sb.Replace(".", "\\.");
// replaces all occurrences of '*' with ".*"
sb.Replace("*", ".*");
// replaces all occurrences of '?' with '.*'
sb.Replace("?", ".");
// add "\b" to the beginning and end of the pattern
sb.Insert(0, "\\b");
sb.Append("\\b");
pattern = sb.ToString();
}
Regex regex = new Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
return regex.IsMatch(filename);
}
}
}
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