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From: alter@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: PD version of "gmatch"?
Message-ID: <3286@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 13 Oct 88 08:37:46 GMT
Reply-To: alter@ttidca.tti.com (Steve Alter)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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Can someone point me to a public-domain (or at least legally copyable)
version of the "gmatch" routine?

Common programs such as "sh", "csh" and "find" use a function called
gmatch (csh actually calls it Gmatch) which has a header sort of like
this:

int
gmatch (string, pattern)
char  *string, *pattern;

and the function returns non-zero if the string fits the pattern.  The
pattern may contain '*', '?', or '[a-z]' style constructs.  You've all
seen this before; I'm just clarifying this to tell it apart from
regular expressions, which are entirely different beasts.

I've got a program that currently uses gmatch borrowed from the "find"
program and I can't post it to the net until I get a legally copyable
version of gmatch into it.

Thanks in advance,

-- Steve Alter
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-- Steve Alter
...!{csun,psivax,pyramid,quad1,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!alter  or  alter@tti.com
Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica CA  (213) 452-9191 x2541