Change a wildcard to a RegEx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6907720/need-to-perform-wildcard-etc-search-on-a-string-using-regex http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11556/Converting-Wildcards-to-Regexes

WildCardToRegex.cs

/// <summary>
/// Represents a wildcard running on the
/// <see cref="System.Text.RegularExpressions"/> engine.
/// </summary>
public class Wildcard : Regex
{
 /// <summary>
 /// Initializes a wildcard with the given search pattern.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="pattern">The wildcard pattern to match.</param>
 public Wildcard(string pattern)
  : base(WildcardToRegex(pattern))
 {
 }
 
 /// <summary>
 /// Initializes a wildcard with the given search pattern and options.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="pattern">The wildcard pattern to match.</param>
 /// <param name="options">A combination of one or more
 /// <see cref="System.Text.RegexOptions"/>.</param>
 public Wildcard(string pattern, RegexOptions options)
  : base(WildcardToRegex(pattern), options)
 {
 }
 
 /// <summary>
 /// Converts a wildcard to a regex.
 /// </summary>
 /// <param name="pattern">The wildcard pattern to convert.</param>
 /// <returns>A regex equivalent of the given wildcard.</returns>
 public static string WildcardToRegex(string pattern)
 {
  return "^" + Regex.Escape(pattern).
   Replace("\\*", ".*").
   Replace("\\?", ".") + "$";
 }
}