From bcbb7e3ec33dee040fb6e0b5036d13eb5151df8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Madalin Ilie <madalin.ilie@endava.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:25:13 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] chore: Replace .^ pattern with alphanumeric plus

---
 .../com/endava/cats/generator/simple/StringGenerator.java     | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/endava/cats/generator/simple/StringGenerator.java b/src/main/java/com/endava/cats/generator/simple/StringGenerator.java
index 1ccbb48f2..32b470472 100755
--- a/src/main/java/com/endava/cats/generator/simple/StringGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/endava/cats/generator/simple/StringGenerator.java
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ public class StringGenerator {
     private static final Pattern HAS_LENGTH_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(\\*|\\+|\\?|\\{\\d+(,\\d*)?\\})");
 
     private static final Pattern LENGTH_INLINE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("(\\^)?(\\[[^]]*]\\{\\d+}|\\(\\[[^]]*]\\{\\d+}\\)\\?)*(\\$)?");
+    private static final List<String> WILD_CARDS = List.of(".^");
 
     private static final String ALPHANUMERIC = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
     private static final String[] DOMAINS = {"example", "cats", "google", "yahoo"};
@@ -231,6 +232,9 @@ public static String cleanPattern(String pattern) {
         if (StringUtils.isBlank(pattern)) {
             return ALPHANUMERIC_PLUS;
         }
+        if (WILD_CARDS.contains(pattern)) {
+            return ALPHANUMERIC_PLUS;
+        }
         if (pattern.startsWith("/") && pattern.endsWith("/i")) {
             pattern = pattern.substring(1, pattern.length() - 2);
         }