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uwildmat(3)


NAME

   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 shorthand  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 example, [^]-] 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-asterisk failure
   mode in early 1991.

   Rich and Lars increased the efficiency of star patterns 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 1.10, dated 1992/04/03.

SEE ALSO

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

                                                                WILDMAT(3)



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