How do you tell if two wildcards overlap?
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Given two strings with * wildcards, I would like to know if a string could be created that would match both.
For example, these two are a simple case of overlap:
- Hello*World
- Hel*
But so are all of these:
- *.csv
- reports*.csv
- reportsdump.csv
Is there an algorithm published for doing this? Or perhaps a utility function in Windows or a library I might be able to call or copy?
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