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gmatch

Section: String Pattern-Matching Library Functions (3GEN)
Updated: 29 Dec 1996
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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. A backslash (\) is used as an escape character in pattern strings.  

RETURN VALUES

gmatch() returns non-zero if the pattern matches the string, zero if the pattern does not.  

EXAMPLES

Example 1: Examples of gmatch() function.

In the following example, gmatch() returns non-zero (true) for all strings with "a" or "-" as their last character.

char *s;
gmatch (s, "*[a\-]" )

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelMT-Safe

 

SEE ALSO

sh(1), attributes(5)  

NOTES

When compiling multithreaded applications, the _REENTRANT flag must be defined on the compile line. This flag should only be used in multithreaded applications.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
EXAMPLES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
NOTES

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