NAME

       wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching

SYNOPSIS

       int
       wildmat(text, pattern)
           char       *text;
           char       *pattern;

DESCRIPTION

       Wildmat is part of libinn (3).  Wildmat compares the text against the pattern and returns non-zero if the
       pattern  matches  the  text.   The  pattern  is  interpreted according to rules similar to shell filename
       wildcards, and not as a full regular expression such as those handled by the grep(1) family  of  programs
       or the regex(3) or regexp(3) set of routines.

       The pattern is interpreted as follows:

       \x     Turns  off the special meaning of x and matches it directly; this is used mostly before a question
              mark or asterisk, and is not special inside square brackets.

       ?      Matches any single character.

       *      Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

       [x...y]
              Matches any single character specified by the set x...y.  A minus sign may be used to  indicate  a
              range  of  characters.  That is, [0-5abc] is a shorthand for [012345abc].  More than one range may
              appear inside a character set; [0-9a-zA-Z._] matches almost all of the legal characters for a host
              name.  The close bracket, ], may be used if it is the first character in the set.  The minus sign,
              -, may be used if it is either the first or last character in the set.

       [^x...y]
              This matches any character not in the set x...y, which is interpreted  as  described  above.   For
              example, [^]-] matches any character other than a close bracket or minus sign.

HISTORY

       Written  by  Rich  $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> in 1986, and posted to Usenet several times since then, most
       notably in comp.sources.misc in March, 1991.

       Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> enhanced the multi-asterisk failure mode in early 1991.

       Rich and Lars increased the efficiency of star patterns and reposted it to  comp.sources.misc  in  April,
       1991.

       Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> added minus sign and close bracket handling in June, 1991.

       This is revision 1.10, dated 1992/04/03.

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), regex(3), regexp(3).

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