Scan/Match exec

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1 total messages Started by Greg T. Barba Fri, 12 Jun 1992 21:42

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Author: Greg T. Barba
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 21:42

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My apologies if this has been discussed before, but I have not been
able to find anything in the archives.

Has anyone written an exec/subroutine that does pattern matching
on a string? I would like to use asterisks to represent any char
and a question mark to represent a single char.

For example:

    match("What a nice feature","feature") --> 1
    match("What a nice feature","nic*")    --> 1
    match("What a nice feature","f*tur*")  --> 1
    match("What a nice feature","w?at")    --> 0
    match("What a nice feature","W?at")    --> 1

How bout

    match("Now you're dreaming","'bob*' | 'f*' | 'dream*g'")            --> 1
    match("Now you're dreaming","('B?B' & 'TED') | ('DREAM*' & '*ow')") --> 1

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