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FWildcardString

Implements a string with wild card pattern matching abilities.

Unreal Engine C++ API Reference > Runtime > Core > Misc

Inheritance Hierarchy

References

   
Module Core
Header /Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Public/Misc/WildcardString.h
Include #include "Misc/WildcardString.h"

Syntax

class FWildcardString : public FString

Remarks

Implements a string with wild card pattern matching abilities.

The FWildcardString is meant to hold the pattern you are matching against. For basic use, just call the static functions IsMatch() or IsMatchSubstring if you have FStringView

Constructors

  Type Name Description
Public function   Default constructor.
Public function  

FWildcardString ( const FString& Pattern
)

 Creates and initializes a new instance with the specified pattern.
Public function  

FWildcardString ( const TCHAR* Pattern
)

 Creates and initializes a new instance with the specified pattern.

Functions

  Type Name Description
Public function Const bool Checks whether this string contains wild card characters.
Public function Static bool

ContainsWildcards ( const TCHAR* Pattern
)

 Checks whether the specified pattern contains wild card characters.
Public function Const bool

IsMatch ( const TCHAR* Input
)

 Matches the given input string to this wild card pattern.
Public function Const bool

IsMatch ( const FString& Input
)

 Matches the given input string to this wild card pattern.
Public function Static bool

IsMatch ( const TCHAR* Pattern,
const TCHAR* Input
)

 Non-recursive wild card string matching algorithm.
Public function Static bool

IsMatchSubstring ( const TCHAR* Pattern,
const TCHAR* Input,
const TCHAR* InputEnd,
ESearchCase::Type SearchCase
)

 As IsMatch, except can accept the end of the input string in order to facilitate FStringView usage.

Constants

Name Description
EndOfString Holds the string terminator character.
ExactWildcard Holds the wild card that matches exactly one character (default is '?').
SequenceWildcard Holds the wild card that matches a sequence of characters (default is '*').

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