Wildcard PHP text search

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I have a text string that has been doctored to be web safe URLs i.e. non alphanumeric's are converted to "_".

What I want to do is search for the original name before it was converted, this means that I need some kind of wild card search i.e.

What I have

test__mytest

With wildcards

test??mytest

The string I would find with the wildcard search

test: mytest

Can someone tell me how to achieve this in PHP? Thanks

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