Java : Comparing string with the wild card pattern

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Have you ever searched for files and folders in Windows operating system? Generally most of the users try to search various .doc files, .pdf files etc. We generally search by giving *.doc or *.pdf in the text box of the search window of the windows OS. Of course windows OS provides some other more specific search utilities. However this kind of search is used in many applications. If an application provides this kind of facility it is considered as the best feature of that application.

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It is always important for an application how the user is going to provide a search condition. All kinds of search conditions are not always feasible. Generally It has been universally endorsed that a user can search based upon certain specifications. As far this specification is concerned, we generally search by providing wild card characters. The wild card characters are * and ? . There is a concept behind these characters. I hope you know about it. This kind of search specification is recurrent in various applications.  more...