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GMATCH 3GEN "Dec 29, 1996"
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 (\e) 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\e-]" )
ATTRIBUTES

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

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-Level MT-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.