Wildcard and glob matching in JavaScript.

wildcard-to-regexp.js

/**
 * Creates a RegExp from the given string, converting asterisks to .* expressions,
 * and escaping all other characters.
 */
function wildcardToRegExp (s) {
  return new RegExp('^' + s.split(/\*+/).map(regExpEscape).join('.*') + '$');
}

/**
 * RegExp-escapes all characters in the given string.
 */
function regExpEscape (s) {
  return s.replace(/[|\\{}()[\]^$+*?.]/g, '\\$&');
}

Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this, was struggling for this kind of helper methods. :)

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed!

anything for python?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1996499/9275249 This will work i guess

This is awesome. Thanks for the amazing helper function