wildescape

This is a fork of wildmatch, but with an escape character defined.

Match strings against a simple wildcard pattern. Tests a wildcard pattern p against an input string s. Returns true only when p matches the entirety of s.

See also the example described on wikipedia for matching wildcards.

• ? matches exactly one occurrence of any character.
• * matches arbitrary many (including zero) occurrences of any character.
• ~ is the escaped character for matching ?, * and ~.