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From: kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: string matching routine
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Date: 27 Jun 91 12:24:05 GMT
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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.

So would strncmp("abc", "abcdefg", 3).

While there is no wildcard capability in the str* routines, it is fairly
easy to combine them to produce the desired result.

Some almost have a 'grep' type of action like finding a substring within
a string.

					Lloyd Kremer
					Hilton Systems, Inc.
					kremer@cs.odu.edu