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From: vahid@vesta.ics.uci.edu (Frank Vahid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Wanted: string matching routine
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Date: 26 Jun 91 18:58:55 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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Hi.

Does anyone have a routine which is similar to strcmp, but permits
unix-type wildcard characters in at least one of the strings?
For example, strmatch("abc*", "abcdefg") would return a value denoting
a successful match.

Thanks.

Frank (vahid@ics.uci.edu)