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Matthew matthewnitschke

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Dedicated to overengineering solutions to problems no one has

matthewnitschke / patternFormatter.js

Created May 28, 2016 23:55

Takes a value and pattern for input and then returns a formatted string


	function formatPattern(value, pattern) {
	if (value){
	var characters = pattern.replace(getWildcardRegex(), ""); // removes all wild cards
	value = value.replace(new RegExp("["+characters+"]", 'gi'), ""); // removes all non wildcard characters in pattern
	if (value){
	return replace(value, pattern);
	}
	}
	}

matthewnitschke / formatString.js

Last active January 29, 2016 20:45

Formats a string to a pattern

	function fomatPattern(value, pattern){
	if (value){
	var characters = pattern.replace(/#/g, "");
	value = value.replace(new RegExp("["+characters+"]", 'gi'), "");
	if (value){
	return replace(value, pattern);
	}
	}
	}

matthewnitschke / PatternMatches.cs

Last active February 20, 2025 22:21

Simple wildcard matching in C#

	public bool MatchesPattern(string pattern, string text)
	{
	pattern = pattern.Replace("%", @".+");
	pattern = pattern.Replace("_", @".");

	Regex regex = new Regex(pattern);

	if (regex.IsMatch(text))
	{
	return true;