Regular Expression Wildcard Matching

Question

I have a list of about 120 thousand english words (basically every word in the language).

I need a regular expression that would allow searching through these words

Answer 1

function matchWild(wild,name)
{
    if (wild == '*') return true;

    wild = wild.replace(/\./g,'\\.');
    wild = wild.replace(/\?/g,'.');
    wild = wild.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\');  
    wild = wild.replace(/\//g,'\\/');
    wild = wild.replace(/\*/g,'(.+?)');

    var re = new RegExp(wild,'i');
    return re.test(name);
}