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From: Stephane Charette <[e-mail]>
Subject: Applying file masks in UNIX using C/C++
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This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the existence
of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a file mask to
an existing filename and return a TRUE or FALSE response?

For example:  if I have a mask of "a??01.text.*" and I have
the files "abc01.text.old", "az01.text.new" and "az01.text",
then it would return positive on the first two, but negative
on the last.  Does this make sense?

What I hope, is that someone has already done all of this and
put it up there on an FTP site.  Thing is, I can't find it...
WWW searches have turned up nothing so far either.  (The fact
that I have no idea what this would be called doesn't help.)

Thanks for your help,

Stephane Charette