Wildcard Utility

Utility Class for handling wildcard opertations like “b?a_*”

class Jar\Utilities\Utilities\WildcardUtility

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Jar\Utilities\Utilities\WildcardUtility::matchAgainstPatternList($patterns, $string, $flags = 0)

Matches a string against a whole list of patterns, returns “true” on first match

Parameters:

• $patterns (array) – List of patterns like [‘b?a_*’, ‘plupp_*’]
• $string (string) – The string to match.
• $flags (int) – Flags (“FNM_PATHNAME” or 1, “FNM_NOESCAPE” or 2, “FNM_PERIOD” or 4, “FNM_CASEFOLD” or 16) based on https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fnmatch.php#refsect1-function.fnmatch-parameters

Returns:

Returns “true” on first match, otherwise false.

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Jar\Utilities\Utilities\WildcardUtility::match($pattern, $string, $flags = 0)

Simple wildcard which matches a string against a pattern. Wildcards like * or ? are useable.

Parameters:

• $pattern (string) – The Pattern like “hello*world”
• $string (string) – The string to match.
• $flags (int) – Flags (“FNM_PATHNAME” or 1, “FNM_NOESCAPE” or 2, “FNM_PERIOD” or 4, “FNM_CASEFOLD” or 16) based on https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fnmatch.php#refsect1-function.fnmatch-parameters

Returns:

Returns “true” on match, otherwise false.

Example:

$pattern = 'hello*world';

WildcardUtility::match($pattern, 'hello beatiful world'); // true
WildcardUtility::match($pattern, 'hello happy planet');   // false