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From: ee163ahe@sdcc13.UUCP (VICTOR ROMANO)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Magic string pattern matching (as in vi)
Message-ID: <152@sdcc13.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 13:03:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 13:03:01 1985
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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	Does anybody have a procedure/function that compares two strings,
	one which has "magic" wildcards (as in "vi" and "grep")?  For example,
	I need to be able to search for a string that matches some pattern like:

		"beginning .* end"
	
	which would match if it found the string:

		"beginning with some text in the middle end".

	Having both a "search" and a "compare" function would be most useful,
	but I could always make one from the other.

		Thanks,
			Victor Romano.