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MatchesMask

unit
Masks
category
type conversion routines

declaration
function MatchesMask(const StringToMatch, Mask: string): Boolean;

description
Returns True is a string value matches a format specifed by a mask.

The function raises an exception if the Mask parameter is syntactically invalid. Syntactically valid Mask consists of literal characters, sets, and wildcards.
Wildcards are asterisks (*) or question marks (?). An asterisk matches any number of characters. A question mark matches a single arbitrary character.
The comparison to literal characters is NOT case-sensitive.

example
const s = 'http://delphi.about.com';

MatchesMask(s,'h?p://*') == FALSE
MatchesMask(s,'h??p://*') == TRUE
MatchesMask(s,'http://*') == TRUE
MatchesMask(s,'http://*.com') == TRUE
MatchesMask(s,'http://*.net') == FALSE
MatchesMask(s,'*.about.com') == TRUE
MatchesMask(s,'about.com*') == FALSE

in real code

see also
IntToStr, SetLength, StrToBool


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