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From: paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wildcard Expansion
Message-ID: <9460@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 00:11:34 GMT
References: <8466@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Organization: Procrastinator's Club (I think)
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In article <8466@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) writes:
+Does anyone have a general wildcard expansion code in C or 68000 Assembler?
+Something like given a filename and a wildcard mask, is the file covered
+by the mask?? 

See if your system has re_comp & re_exec.  Those routines will do what you
want.
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