Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!texbell!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!mcvax!piring.cwi.nl!guido From: guido@piring.cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C wildcard routines Message-ID: <8338@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 17 Aug 89 14:23:42 GMT References: <14989@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <368@smsdpg.uu.net> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 11 In case you're looking for things that match the (Bourne) shell's pattern matching rather than more elaborate ed/vi/grep style regular expression matching (Henry Spence actually approximates egrep regular expressions), I wrote such code years ago which I am still willing to give away for free, no strings attached. I recently fixed it to support the System V-ism of [!...] to match any character not in the set. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@cwi.nl or mcvax!guido or guido%cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net "Repo man has all night, every night."