diff --git a/src/tagtransform-c.cpp b/src/tagtransform-c.cpp
index c471d8541..9c1e34153 100644
--- a/src/tagtransform-c.cpp
+++ b/src/tagtransform-c.cpp
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ bool c_tagtransform_t::check_key(std::vector<taginfo> const &infos,
     //go through the actual tags found on the item and keep the ones in the export list
     for (auto const &info : infos) {
         if (info.flags & FLAG_DELETE) {
-            if (wildMatch(info.name.c_str(), k)) {
+            if (wild_match(info.name.c_str(), k)) {
                 return false;
             }
         } else if (std::strcmp(info.name.c_str(), k) == 0) {
diff --git a/src/wildcmp.cpp b/src/wildcmp.cpp
index 40b1d35a7..9ae36d49b 100644
--- a/src/wildcmp.cpp
+++ b/src/wildcmp.cpp
@@ -15,28 +15,37 @@
  * Case sensitive wild card match with a string.
  * * matches any string or no character.
  * ? matches any single character.
- * anything else etc must match the character exactly.
+ * anything else must match the character exactly.
  *
  * Returns if a match was found.
  */
-bool wildMatch(char const *first, char const *second)
+bool wild_match(char const *expr, char const *str) noexcept
 {
-    // Code borrowed from
+    // Code based on
     // http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wildcard-character-matching/
-    if (*first == '\0' && *second == '\0') {
+    if (*expr == '\0' && *str == '\0') {
         return true;
     }
 
-    if (*first == '*' && *(first + 1) != '\0' && *second == '\0') {
+    if (*expr == '*') {
+        while (*(expr + 1) == '*') {
+            ++expr;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (*expr == '*' && *(expr + 1) != '\0' && *str == '\0') {
         return false;
     }
 
-    if (*first == '?' || *first == *second) {
-        return wildMatch(first + 1, second + 1);
+    if (*expr == '?' || *expr == *str) {
+        if (*str == '\0') {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return wild_match(expr + 1, str + 1);
     }
 
-    if (*first == '*') {
-        return wildMatch(first + 1, second) || wildMatch(first, second + 1);
+    if (*expr == '*') {
+        return wild_match(expr + 1, str) || wild_match(expr, str + 1);
     }
 
     return false;
diff --git a/src/wildcmp.hpp b/src/wildcmp.hpp
index 2ad8a080d..b471fa5aa 100644
--- a/src/wildcmp.hpp
+++ b/src/wildcmp.hpp
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
  * For a full list of authors see the git log.
  */
 
-bool wildMatch(char const *wildCard, char const *string);
+bool wild_match(char const *expr, char const *str) noexcept;
 
 #endif // OSM2PGSQL_WILDCMP_HPP
diff --git a/tests/test-wildcard-match.cpp b/tests/test-wildcard-match.cpp
index 5eb10c7bd..b7d82cef1 100644
--- a/tests/test-wildcard-match.cpp
+++ b/tests/test-wildcard-match.cpp
@@ -13,26 +13,31 @@
 
 TEST_CASE("Wildcard matching", "[NoDB]")
 {
-    CHECK(wildMatch("fhwieurwe", "fhwieurwe"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("fhwieurwe", "fhwieurw"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("fhwieurw", "fhwieurwe"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("*", "foo"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("r*", "foo"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("r*", "roo"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("*bar", "Hausbar"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("*bar", "Haustar"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("*", ""));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("kin*la", "kinla"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("kin*la", "kinLLla"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("kin*la", "kinlalalala"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("kin*la", "kinlaa"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("kin*la", "ki??laa"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("1*2*3", "123"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("1*2*3", "1xX23"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("1*2*3", "12y23"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("1*2*3", "12"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("bo??f", "boxxf"));
-    CHECK_FALSE(wildMatch("bo??f", "boxf"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("?5?", "?5?"));
-    CHECK(wildMatch("?5?", "x5x"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("fhwieurwe", "fhwieurwe"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("fhwieurwe", "fhwieurw"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("fhwieurw", "fhwieurwe"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("*", "foo"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("**", "foo"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("r*", "foo"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("r*", "roo"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("*bar", "Hausbar"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("*bar", "Haustar"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("*", ""));
+    CHECK(wild_match("**", ""));
+    CHECK(wild_match("kin*la", "kinla"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("kin*la", "kinLLla"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("kin*la", "kinlalalala"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("kin**la", "kinlalalala"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("kin*la", "kinlaa"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("kin*la", "ki??laa"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("1*2*3", "123"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("1*2*3", "1xX23"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("1*2*3", "12y23"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("1*2*3", "12"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("bo??f", "boxxf"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("bo??f", "boxf"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("?5?", "?5?"));
+    CHECK(wild_match("?5?", "x5x"));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("?abc", ""));
+    CHECK_FALSE(wild_match("?", ""));
 }