Java Utililty Methods Wildcard to Regex

List of utility methods to do Wildcard to Regex

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Method

StringwildcardToRegex(String wildcard)
wildcard To Regex 
StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer(wildcard.length());
boolean alternation = false;
for (int i = 0, is = wildcard.length(); i < is; i++) {
    char c = wildcard.charAt(i);
    switch (c) {
    case '*':
        s.append(".*");
        break;
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StringwildcardToRegex(String wildcard)
Converts given string containing wildcards (* or ?) to its corresponding regular expression. 
StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer(wildcard.length());
s.append('^');
for (int i = 0, is = wildcard.length(); i < is; i++) {
    char c = wildcard.charAt(i);
    switch (c) {
    case '*':
        s.append(".*");
        break;
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StringwildcardToRegex(String wildcardPattern)
wildcard To Regex 
if (wildcardPattern != null && (wildcardPattern.indexOf("*") != -1 || wildcardPattern.indexOf("?") != -1)) {
    StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
    char[] chars = wildcardPattern.toCharArray();
    for (char aChar : chars) {
        if (aChar == '*')
            buffer.append(".*");
        else if (aChar == '?')
            buffer.append(".");
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StringwildcardToRegexp(String globExp)
Expands glob expressions to regular expressions. 
StringBuilder dst = new StringBuilder();
char[] src = globExp.replace("**/*", "**").toCharArray();
int i = 0;
while (i < src.length) {
    char c = src[i++];
    switch (c) {
    case '*':
        if (i < src.length && src[i] == '*') {
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StringwildcardToRegexString(String wildcard)
Convert strings containing DOS-style '*' or '?' 
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(wildcard.length());
s.append('^');
for (int i = 0, is = wildcard.length(); i < is; i++) {
    char c = wildcard.charAt(i);
    switch (c) {
    case '*':
        s.append(".*");
        break;
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