Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: pattern matching (was Re: Command line length limitations)
Message-ID: <13039@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 4 Jul 90 04:32:37 GMT
References: <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> <136735@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <12396@cbmvax.commodore.com> <38zy02j0ae2P01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <774@teslab.lab.OZ>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 15

>>In article <12396@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>> 	Wildcard expansion is much easier to do now, due to matchfirst/
>>> matchnext.
>
>I hope these are not just for matching file names (as in similarly
>named MSDOS calls), but allow pattern matching on any string.  Some
>people would like to use pattern matching for other than file names.

	ParsePattern (makes tokenized string) and MatchPattern (matches
tokenized pattern against string).  Poof.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"