php string matching with wildcard *?

Question

I want to give the possibility to match string with wildcard *.

Example

$mystring = \'dir/folder1/file\';
$pattern = \'dir/*/file\';

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Answer 1

You should just use .* instead.

$pattern = str_replace( '*' , '.*', $pattern);   //> This is the important replace

Edit: Also your ^ and $ were in the wrong order.

Working demo: http://www.ideone.com/mGqp2