Using wildcards for String compare

Hello,
I want my prog to find out all Strings which start with the letters 'File'. How can I make a String compare by using wildcards ?
Thanx,
Findus

You may use the String method startsWith to find strings beginning with File. eg. filename.startsWith("File")
for more complicated comparisons you might want to use regular expressions.

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[svn] 2788: fix asc commandline tests, use wildcards for build number is usage baselines

Revision: 2788
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-08-08 10:47:32 -0700 (Fri, 08 Aug 2008)
Log Message:
fix asc commandline tests, use wildcards for build number is usage baselines
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/test/compiler/cmdline/avmtarget.err
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/test/compiler/cmdline/avmtargetn.err
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/test/compiler/cmdline/config.err
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/test/compiler/cmdline/help1.err
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/test/compiler/cmdline/help2.err

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Using wildcards in strings

Hi all, I was wondering if it's possible to use wildcards in NSStrings?
So for example say my text is:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
And I want to extract the string "quick brown fox".
Something like?
(@"quick*fox");
Is there a wildcard that can be used to extract the text between quick and fox? I know I could just strip out 'quick brown fox', but what if I didn't necessarily know it was 'brown' between them, and it was some other word?
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From the reference I get, it state this :
"Operator (==) compares two object addresses to see whether it refers to the same object."
I've tested it with 2 codes as below :
Code 1:
          String Pass1 = "cosmo";
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Can't use wildcard for cache manifest

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Using StartsWith for String Comparision in Business rules

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I need to compare whether a particular string starts with some pre-defined prefixes. These are bound to change from time to time and hence we wanted to use the business rule engine for this. We declared prefixes using "list of values" vocab and
defined the set. Now, I hoped to use the String.StartsWith() method but couldn't understand if it can be used.
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[Solved] Using diff for directory compare

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Modify: 2013-01-01 12:34:20.000000000 -0500
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Can i use wildcards in function module .

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[svn] 1751: Bug: BLZ-174 - MessageClient.testMessage() is incorrectly doing a string compare for the subtopic header of an inbound message against the subtopic value (which may contain wildcards) that the Consumer is using.

Revision: 1751
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-05-15 14:21:43 -0700 (Thu, 15 May 2008)
Log Message:
Bug: BLZ-174 - MessageClient.testMessage() is incorrectly doing a string compare for the subtopic header of an inbound message against the subtopic value (which may contain wildcards) that the Consumer is using.
QA: No - customer verified the fix.
Doc: No
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-174
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blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/MessageClient.java
blazeds/branches/3.0.x/modules/core/src/java/flex/messaging/services/MessageService.java

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Enjoy
* File Name: WildcardSearch.java
* Date: Jan 9, 2004
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*        within Java (hard coded)
* @author kmportner
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import java.io.FilenameFilter;
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I am following this documentation:
String column filters
Support % (starts with) operator.
Support * (Contains) operator.
Does not support (ends with) operator.
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I can get filters to work without wildcards, but have had no success using '*' or '%' characters. Please provide a properly encoded sample URL for
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Here is what I have tried:
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500
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Hi Dan,
I don't think you can use wild cards here.
Please see the Integration Guide for 9.4. Section: "REST API -> Quick Reference".
Here you'll find a table of what features are supported for the different resources exposed by the API. In there you will find a row for "All Service Items", and you'll see that: Get All, Sorting, Paging and All Filters are supported; Wildcards Name Search are not...
When I came accross this same situation, I assumed that I am trying to do a Wildcard Name Search here... and it's not supported. It does, however, work for the other (SI Designer created) columns, which is what I believe the documentation is trying to describe. (Though, personally, I feel this is a bug).

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Comparing two columns in two tables using partial text strings and copying data between tables

I have two tables:
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