Problem 42810. String Find with Wildcards of a Cell array

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 8 Nov 2020

By looking at the solutions, you should probably add a case
c = {'data.mat', 'amat', 'repo.mat', 'matrix', '.mat'}
str = '*.mat'

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