If you need to compare two strings where one contains wildcards (just * and ?), you may find the following useful - I used it years ago in a Turbo Pascal project.

It was a DOS program.. that's why it contains those type definitions at the top. In Delphi 2/3 you may replace them just with string - otherwise you'll need to set the compiler syntax option "Strict Var-Strings" OFF = {$V-}.

The part at the bottom shows how to use the routine WildComp.

 type
  PathStr = string[128]; { in Delphi 2/3: = string }
  NameStr = string[12];  { in Delphi 2/3: = string }
  ExtStr  = string[3];   { in Delphi 2/3: = string }

{$V-} { in Delphi 2/ 3 to switch off "strict var-strings" }

function WildComp(FileWild,FileIs: PathStr): boolean;
var
  NameW,NameI: NameStr;
  ExtW,ExtI: ExtStr;
  c: byte;

  function WComp(var WildS,IstS: NameStr): boolean;
  var
    i, j, l, p : Byte;
  begin
    i := 1;
    j := 1;
    while (i<=length(WildS)) do
    begin
      if WildS[i]='*' then
      begin
        if i = length(WildS) then
        begin
          WComp := true;
          exit
        end
        else
        begin
          { we need to synchronize }
          l := i+1;
          while (l < length(WildS)) and (WildS[l+1] <> '*') do
            inc (l);
          p := pos (copy (WildS, i+1, l-i), IstS);
          if p > 0 then
          begin
            j := p-1;
          end
          else
          begin
            WComp := false;
            exit;
          end;
        end;
      end
      else
      if (WildS[i]<>'?') and ((length(IstS) < i)
	  	  or (WildS[i]<>IstS[j])) then
      begin
        WComp := false;
 	exit
      end;

      inc (i);
      inc (j);
    end;
    WComp := (j > length(IstS));
  end;

begin
  c:=pos('.',FileWild);
  if c=0 then
  begin { automatically append .* }
    NameW := FileWild;
    ExtW  := '*';
  end
  else
  begin
    NameW := copy(FileWild,1,c-1);
    ExtW  := copy(FileWild,c+1,255);
  end;

  c:=pos('.',FileIs);
  if c=0 then
    c:=length(FileIs)+1;
  NameI := copy(FileIs,1,c-1);
  ExtI  := copy(FileIs,c+1,255);
  WildComp := WComp(NameW,NameI) and WComp(ExtW,ExtI);
end;

begin
  if     WildComp('a*.bmp',  'auto.bmp') then ShowMessage('OK 1');
  if not WildComp('a*x.bmp', 'auto.bmp') then ShowMessage('OK 2');
  if     WildComp('a*o.bmp', 'auto.bmp') then ShowMessage('OK 3');
  if not WildComp('a*tu.bmp','auto.bmp') then ShowMessage('OK 4');
end.

Publicado el: 2003-09-19