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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wildcard Expansion
Message-ID: <15821@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 15:58:05 GMT
References: <8466@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> <9460@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <9460@ttidca.TTI.COM> paulb@ttidca.TTI.COM (Paul Blumstein) writes:
>In article <8466@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> bluneski@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Luneski) writes:
>>Does anyone have a general wildcard expansion code...
>See if your system has re_comp & re_exec...

Wildcard globbing is not the same thing as regexp matching.  You could do it
that way, but you'd have to translate the wildcard pattern to a regexp first.

Also, re_comp and re_exec are Berkeleyisms.  On SysV you're more likely to
have <regexp.h> instead.  (Henry Spencer's regexp routines are better than
either of those, so that may be the best approach.)

I've sent Paul a globbing routine by email.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint