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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pattern matching
Keywords: pattern matching
Message-ID: <308@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 21:15:01 GMT
References: <2414@cveg.uucp> <10288@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <10288@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.

Nitpick. Where's your ":-)" ?
Substitute "sh" for "ls". Besides, maybe he's using MS-DOS, in which
case it might really be "ls" that's doing the matching he's used to.

>>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.

Not really...as I recall, they implement ed/ex/vi/sed-syntax patterns
such as "." and ".*", where he wants "?" and "*".

Though you'd think it'd be easy to modify that regexp.Z source to use
the desired syntax.

I have a C routine that does pattern matching, but it, too, is
not strictly compatible with "sh" so that probably wouldn't help.
	Doug
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