wildmat

• https://github.com/genehsu/wildmat

This is a gem to create regexp objects from wildmat patterns

All wildmat patterns match an entire string. The pattern matching operations are as follows: (from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildmat)

• Asterisk (*) to match any sequence of zero or more characters.
• Question mark (?) to match any single character.
• Set of specified characters. It is specified as a list of characters, or as a range of characters where the beginning and end of the range are separated by a minus (or dash) character, or as any combination of lists and ranges. The dash can also be included in the set as a character if it is the beginning or end of the set. This set is enclosed in square brackets. The close square bracket (]) may be used in a set if it is the first character in the set.
• Negation of a set. It is specified the same way as the set with the addition of a caret character (^) at the beginning of the test string just inside the open square bracket.
• Backslash (\) character to invalidate the special meaning of the open square bracket ([), the asterisk, backslash or the question mark. Two backslashes in sequence will result in the evaluation of the backslash as a character with no special meaning.

require 'wildmat'

regexp = Wildmat.to_regexp("[0-9]*")
match_data = regexp =~ "0123456"

• wildmat gem

• gem install wildmat

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