C# snippet needed to replicate VBA Like operator

Question

I am converting VBA code that contains the LIKE operator, as in

    dim sToken as String
    if sToken Like \"(*,*)\" then ...

In all case

Answer 1

Several people have suggested regular expressions which should work well for this scenario. Another option is to use the VB Like operator directly from C# code. This can be done by invoking the Compiler helper LikeOperator.LikeString. This function is located in the VB runtime assembly, Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll, and is usable from C#.

using Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices;

...

if (LikeOperator.LikeString(sToken, "(*,*)")) { 
  ...
}

I don't believe this version has 100% parity with the VBA version of Like but it will be extremely close and will match for the common scenarios.