Wildcards for listening scope broadcasts with $on on AngularJs

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Solution

In the angular js source code, `$on` is defined as follows:

$on: function(name, listener) {
   var namedListeners = this.$$listeners[name];
   if (!namedListeners) {
      this.$$listeners[name] = namedListeners = [];
   }
   namedListeners.push(listener);

   return function() {
     namedListeners[indexOf(namedListeners, listener)] = null;
   };
},

since `this.$$listeners` is an associative array, and associative arrays in javascript do not take regexs as keys, this suggests that the short answer is "no you can not".

Problem

Is there a way to capture scope broadcasts using wildcards on AngularJS? Example: ` $rootScope.$on('*created', function () { // do stuff }); `

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