Man page 9 : glob_match

glob_match - match a text string against a glob-style pattern

int glob_match(const char *  text , const char *  pattern );

text
    the string to be examined

pattern
    the glob-style pattern to be matched against

Either/both of text and pattern can be empty strings.

Match text against a glob-style pattern, with wildcards and simple sets:

? matches any single character. * matches any run of characters. [xyz] matches a single character from the set: x, y, or z. [a-d] matches a single character from the range: a, b, c, or d. [a-d0-9] matches a single character from either range.

The special characters ?, [, -, or *, can be matched using a set, eg. [*] Behaviour with malformed patterns is undefined, though generally reasonable.

"SD1?« , »SD1[0-5]« , »*R0« , »SD*1?[012]*xx"

This function uses one level of recursion per Aq*Aq in pattern. Since it calls _nothing_ else, and has _no_ explicit local variables, this will not cause stack problems for any reasonable use here.

0 on match, 1 otherwise.

Jeff Garzik
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