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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wanted: string matching routine
Message-ID: <6534@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 27 Jun 91 07:18:12 GMT
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References: <2868E3EF.6133@ics.uci.edu>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <2868E3EF.6133@ics.uci.edu>, vahid@vesta.ics.uci.edu (Frank Vahid) writes:
> 
> 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.

If you want UNIX-style wildcards, you may be using a UNIX system.
In that case, try 'man regex' or 'man regexp'.
Or look at Kernighan & Plauger "Software Tools" and turn their stuff
back from Ratfor to C.

-- 
I agree with Jim Giles about many of the deficiencies of present UNIX.