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NAME¶
wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matchingSYNOPSIS¶
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.