[rules-users] Wild card characters in .drl file

[Christian Spurk]

Hi!

hanumesh.m wrote:
>                m: Message( fileName matches "*888*", message : message )
> [...]
> 
> But its not working. Error is "Dangling meta character '*' near index 0
> *888*" 

You have to use valid Java Regular Expressions (cf. 
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html). 
What you probably meant was something like this:

m: Message( fileName matches "^.*888.*$", message : message )

HTH,
Christian