NAME

gmatch − shell global pattern matching

SYNOPSIS

cc [flag ...] file ... −lgen [library ...]

#include <libgen.h>

int gmatch (const char ∗str, const char ∗pattern);

DESCRIPTION

gmatch checks whether the null-terminated string str matches the null-terminated pattern string pattern.  See the sh(1) section “File Name Generation” for a discussion of pattern matching.  gmatch returns non-zero if the pattern matches the string, zero if the pattern doesn’t.  A backslash (‘\’) is used as an escape character in pattern strings. 

EXAMPLE

char ∗s;
gmatch (s, "∗[a\-]" )

gmatch returns non-zero (true) for all strings with ‘a’ or ‘-’ as their last character. 

SEE ALSO

sh(1). 

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