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- From: nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Applying file masks in UNIX using C/C++
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:35:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
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- Stephane Charette wrote:
- : 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?
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- Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> wrote:
- ! Nope. This sort of information is not available under the ANSI C standard.
- ! You should look on whatever programming group is appropriate for the
- ! operating system you're interested in (e.g., comp.os.msdos.programmer).
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- FTR, 'fnmatch()' is defined by POSIX-2 and does this action.
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- jfn
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