Wildcard Search Example in C#

Question

I want to do a wildcard search(* and ?) on a search box using the predicate library at 
http://www.albahari.com/nutshell/predicatebuilder.aspx
I am not sure if we can use the regular Expressions library in conjunction with the above predicate library to obtain the results.
Kindly point me to a few good resources on doing this efficiently(with or without using the above library)
Thanks,
K.V.N.PAVAN

Answer 1

You haven't explained the context of your question.
What you aim to achieve.
So it's guesswork trying to come up with an alternative to doing "this" when we don't really know what "this" is.
Looking at that
predicate = predicate.Or (p => p.Description.Contains (temp));
I would think you could combine that with the approach in the link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb882639.aspx
Or maybe you could just use the approach there and forget predicatebuilder.
One approach I use is to build a list of predicates and use trueforall.
I have a wpf sample uses this approach
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26673.wpf-collectionview-tips.aspx
You could adapt that approach into a linq extension method, or maybe use it as a filter like I do in that article.
private List<Predicate<Person>> criteria = new List<Predicate<Person>>();
private bool dynamic_Filter(object item)
Person p = item as Person;
bool isIn = true;
if (criteria.Count() == 0)
return isIn;
isIn = criteria.TrueForAll(x => x(p));
return isIn;
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