Regular expression - starting and ending with a character string

Question

I would like to write a regular expression that starts with the string  wp  and ends with the string  php  to locate a file in a directory  How do I do it   Example file  wp-comments-post php

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Example   ajshdjashdjashdlasdlhdlSTARTasdasdsdaasdENDaknsdklansdlknaldknaaklsdn  1  START w END return  STARTasdasdsdaasdEND - will give you words between START and END  2  START d END return  START12121212END - will give you numbers between START and END  3  START d   d END return  START1212 1212END - will give you numbers between START and END having

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wp    php   Should do the trick    The    means  any character  repeated 0 or more times   The next   is escaped because it s a special character  and you want a literal period    php    Don t forget that if you re typing this in as a literal string in something like C   Java  etc   you need to escape the backslash because it s a special character in many literal strings

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This should do it for you  wp  php   Matches  wp-comments-post php wp something php wp php   Doesn t match  something-wp php wp php txt

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