wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching


SYNOPSIS

       int
       wildmat(text, pattern)
           char       *text;
           char       *pattern;


DESCRIPTION

       Wildmat  is  part of libinn(3).  Wildmat compares the text
       against the pattern and returns non-zero  if  the  pattern
       matches the text.  The pattern is interpreted according to
       rules similar to shell filename wildcards, and  not  as  a
       full  regular  expression  such  as  those  handled by the
       grep(1) family of programs or the  regex(3)  or  regexp(3)
       set of routines.

       The pattern is interpreted as follows:

       \x     Turns  off  the special meaning of x and matches it
              directly; this is used  mostly  before  a  question
              mark  or asterisk, and is not special inside square
              brackets.

       ?      Matches any single character.

       *      Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

       [x...y]
              Matches any single character specified by  the  set
              x...y.   A  minus  sign  may  be used to indicate a
              range of characters.  That is, [0-5abc] is a short­
              hand  for  [012345abc].   More  than  one range may
              appear  inside  a  character   set;   [0-9a-zA-Z._]
              matches  almost  all  of the legal characters for a
              host name.  The close bracket, ], may be used if it
              is the first character in the set.  The minus sign,
              -, may be used if it is either the  first  or  last
              character in the set.

       [^x...y]
              This  matches  any  character not in the set x...y,
              which is interpreted as described above.  For exam­
              ple, [^]-] matches any character other than a close
              bracket or minus sign.


HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz  <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>  in  1986,  and
       posted to Usenet several times since then, most notably in
       comp.sources.misc in March, 1991.

       Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> enhanced the multi-aster­
       isk failure mode in early 1991.

       and reposted it to comp.sources.misc in April, 1991.

       Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> added minus sign and  close
       bracket handling in June, 1991.

       This is revision 1.2.6.1, dated 2000/08/17.


SEE ALSO

       grep(1), regex(3), regexp(3).


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