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44 lines
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\section{\module{fnmatch} ---
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\UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern matching.}
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\declaremodule{standard}{fnmatch}
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\modulesynopsis{\UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern matching.}
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This module provides support for \UNIX{} shell-style wildcards, which
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are \emph{not} the same as regular expressions (which are documented
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in the \module{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special characters
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used in shell-style wildcards are:
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\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin 0.5in \labelwidth 0.45in}
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\item[\code{*}] matches everything
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\item[\code{?}] matches any single character
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\item[\code{[}\var{seq}\code{]}] matches any character in \var{seq}
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\item[\code{[!}\var{seq}\code{]}] matches any character not in \var{seq}
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\end{list}
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Note that the filename separator (\code{'/'} on \UNIX{}) is \emph{not}
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special to this module. See module \code{glob}\refstmodindex{glob}
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for pathname expansion (\module{glob} uses \function{fnmatch()} to
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match filename segments).
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\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatch}{filename, pattern}
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Test whether the \var{filename} string matches the \var{pattern}
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string, returning true or false. If the operating system is
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case-insensitive, then both parameters will be normalized to all
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lower- or upper-case before the comparision is performed. If you
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require a case-sensitive comparision regardless of whether that's
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standard for your operating system, use \function{fnmatchcase()}
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instead.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatchcase}{filename, pattern}
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Test whether \var{filename} matches \var{pattern}, returning true or
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false; the comparision is case-sensitive.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{seealso}
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\seemodule{glob}{Shell-style path expansion}
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\end{seealso}
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