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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: File Globbing
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 05:01:48 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
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- In article <4j7kvp$p1d@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
- mman2@silas.cc.monash.edu.au "Mr Mark Mansour" writes:
-
- > I am looking for a file globbing routing for a Unix box. Is there
- > something already written, or do I have to start from scratch? For
- > those who do not understand what I am talking about, if the user
- > enters something such as "ls a*b??d" it will check it against an
- > array/list of alternatives and supply my with the correct answer.
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- I am also interested in a routine which checks a string against a wildcard
- expression.
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- I would _like_ to have `*', `?' and `[A-Z]' style wildcards :)
-
- .splitbung
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