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?
Thanks a bunch!

There are a couple of regex libraries in the open source.

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First of all I want to thank everyone for taking the time to respond to my question. All of your responses where greatly appreciated.
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Enjoy
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news:[email protected]...
>
Try using a web application! Servlet spec 2.2+, WLS 510, SP6.
You can do a world of URL patterns!
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>
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terry
Ryotaro Toda <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I
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A_PERMISSION : -
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A_PERMISSION : /*
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Using the six patterns, I tried to accesshttp://localhost:7001/test.html
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