wildcard case insensitive string compare

Can somebody recommend a algorithm for 'fast' wildcard case insensitive string comparisons?

The wild cards are '*' and '?'

Thanks

Did you just ask us how to solve the contest? :eek:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/contests-board/36704-contest-sign-up-regular-expressions.html
Someone close this thread please.

Yeah, but it's better than bumping a 3 year old thread which was abandoned by the contest organiser....

What does * and ? do? Last I heard, they are both used to censor words spoken after lots of beer...

You need to lay out requirements more specifically. Like, are multichar wildcards greedy?