How To Use Just Asterisk Wildcard When Searching?

I want to just support asterisk(*) wildcard not regex. This is my code : for example : checkNames[i] = 'Number of ongoing MS sessions' var checkName = checkNames[i].split('*').jo

Solution 1:

Borrowing heavily from this question, I think you are after something like the following:

var checkName =
    checkNames[i]
        .split("*")
        .map(function (s) { return s.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&'); })
        .join(".*");

This escapes each part of the regular expression after splitting on the * character, ready to be joined back with .*.