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

The one problem you'll have is that the call to preg_quote() will escape the asterisk character. Given that, your str_replace() will replace the *, but not the escape character in front of it.

Therefore you should change the str_replace('*' ..) with str_replace('\*'..)