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Star includes a pattern matcher based on the algorithm
presented by Martin Richards in:
"A Compact Function for Regular Expression Pattern Matching",
Software-Practice and Experience, Vol. 9, 527-534 (1979)
Several changes have been made to the original source which has been
written in BCPL:
'/' is replaced by '!' (to allow UNIX filenames)
'(',')' are replaced by '{', '}'
'\'' is replaced by '\\' (UNIX compatible quote)
Character classes have been added to allow "[<character list>]"
to be used.
Start of line '^' and end of line '$' have been added.
A description is available in the man page for the match program.
It may be found in man/man1/match.1