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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pattern matching
Keywords: pattern matching
Message-ID: <10288@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 May 89 02:45:11 GMT
References: <2414@cveg.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2414@cveg.uucp> mhb@hcx.uucp (MARK H BOTNER) writes:
-Can anybody help me with pattern matching?  I'm trying to match
-a string against a pattern such as '*' or '*.*' in the same manner that
-the 'ls' command uses.

That should be extremely easy, as "ls" does no pattern matching.

-I've tried regex and regexp and I've even downloaded regex.Z from
-uunet.uu.net, but none of these work like I want.

Gee, they ought to.