I'm trying to match URLs with wildcards in them to actual URLs. For example:

http://*google.com/*

Needs to match

http://maps.google.com

And

http://www.google.com/maps

What would be the best way of going about this?

I've tried using a regular expression and that works fine when I manually program it but I'm not sure whether it's possible to dynamically generate regular expressions or if that would be the best practice in this situation.

/(http|https)://.*.?google.com/?.*/i

Thanks very much.