Converting shell wildcards to regex

Question

I want to search for titles using shell wildcards like *.js, *.*.* etc. in js. The thing is I loop through a list of titles and I need to filter th

Answer 1

This should be pretty close.

yourVar.match(/.*\.js$/i)

meaning

• beginning of string is any character sequence .*
• followed by .js in the end \.js$
• do this case insensitive /i