Problem 42810. String Find with Wildcards of a Cell array

Created by Richard Zapor

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Given a cell array of strings and a search string with single character (?) or multiple character (*) wildness return the indices of the cell array that match.

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{'abc' 'bdce' 'bkcz'},'b?c'  outputs [2 3] 'abc' invalid as ? requires a character
{'abcdfhjkfd' 'cf' 'fjhkc' 'fdjk'}, 'c*f' outputs [1 2], no char required for *

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 8 Nov 2020

By looking at the solutions, you should probably add a case
c = {'data.mat', 'amat', 'repo.mat', 'matrix', '.mat'}
str = '*.mat'

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