In article <Pine.NEB.3.91.960421124547.10363M-100000@apb.iafrica.com> apb@iafrica.com (Alan Barrett) writes:
>> I'd like to see how you would write glob_match.
>> 
>> I went looking for something like that, and all I found is
>> the glob.3 man page and libc glob() function, which does
>> not do what we want. (and does a lot more - readdir, etc)
>
>wildmat() seems to do what you want.  Here's the head of wildmat.c as
>distributed with INN: 
>
>/*  $Revision: 1.9 $
>**
>**  Do shell-style pattern matching for ?, \, [], and * characters.
>**  Might not be robust in face of malformed patterns; e.g., "foo[a-"
>**  could cause a segmentation violation.  It is 8bit clean.
>**
>**  Written by Rich $alz, mirror!rs, Wed Nov 26 19:03:17 EST 1986.
>**  Rich $alz is now <rsalz@osf.org>.
>**  April, 1991:  Replaced mutually-recursive calls with in-line code
>**  for the star character.
>
>--apb (Alan Barrett)


man fnmatch

christos