Yes Lokernos StringMatch is good however I am dealing with Unicode not necessarily ASCII and am looking for mechanisms and algorithms I can expand into my particular need.
I would like to keep it in kixtart or VBS if I can before needing to write EXE or DLL com components which would then need distributing and installing....I appreciate KIX by default uses ASCII.
What Intrigues me from a coding perspective is HOW to interpret the VAR++ in a KIX environment rather than just the substitutions of wildcards !