Reduce Wildcard Patterns

Visual Studio Code extension to reduce wildcard pattern lines.

Usage

Select lines. If no line is selected, the entire text is taken.
Press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 to show Command Palett.
Execute Reduce Wildcard Pattenrs.

Features

Compare each row and reduce the number of rows by wildcard matching.

A star (*) matches any string, including empty string.
A question mark (?) matches any single character.
A star takes precedence over a question mark.
- The program does not determine the precedence between x*y?z and x?y*z. However, you can make x*y*z by your hand in this case.
Consecutive starts are compressed into one.
Character classes ([...], [!...], and [^...]) are not supported. Brackets are treated as literal characters.