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Stephane Charette wrote:

> This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the existence
> of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a file mask to
> an existing filename and return a TRUE or FALSE response?

Nope.  This sort of information is not available under the ANSI C standard.
You should look on whatever programming group is appropriate for the operating
system you're interested in (e.g., comp.os.msdos.programmer).
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Stephane Charette wrote:
: This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the existence
: of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a file mask to
: an existing filename and return a TRUE or FALSE response?

Erik Max Francis  <max@alcyone.com> wrote:
! Nope.  This sort of information is not available under the ANSI C standard.
! You should look on whatever programming group is appropriate for the 
! operating system you're interested in (e.g., comp.os.msdos.programmer).

FTR, 'fnmatch()' is defined by POSIX-2 and does this action.

jfn

>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Charette <charrick@netrover.com> writes:

    Stephane> This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the
    Stephane> existence of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a
    Stephane> file mask to an existing filename and return a TRUE or
    Stephane> FALSE response?

How about this?

   WILDMAT(3)                                             WILDMAT(3)


   NAME
	  wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching

   SYNOPSIS
	  int
	  wildmat(text, pattern)
	      char       *text;
	      char       *pattern;

   DESCRIPTION
	  Wildmat  compares the text against the pattern and returns
	  non-zero if the pattern matches the text.  The pattern  is
	  interpreted  according  to rules similar to shell filename
	  wildcards, and not as a full regular  expression  such  as
	  those  handled  by  the  grep(1) family of programs or the
	  regex(3) or regexp(3) set of routines.

   [...]

   HISTORY
	  Written  by  Rich  $alz  <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> in 1986, and
	  posted to Usenet several times since then, most notably in
	  comp.sources.misc in March, 1991.

So I would suggest an archie search for wildmat or a search in
comp.sources.misc archives.

Hope this helps,
Jacob. 
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Stephane Charette <charrick@netrover.com> wrote:

>This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the existence
>of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a file mask to
>an existing filename and return a TRUE or FALSE response?

>For example:  if I have a mask of "a??01.text.*" and I have
>the files "abc01.text.old", "az01.text.new" and "az01.text",
>then it would return positive on the first two, but negative
>on the last.  Does this make sense?

>What I hope, is that someone has already done all of this and
>put it up there on an FTP site.  Thing is, I can't find it...
>WWW searches have turned up nothing so far either.  (The fact
>that I have no idea what this would be called doesn't help.)

>Thanks for your help,

>Stephane Charette

Try This.
This is working like UNIX wildcards.
More best than DOS wildcards.
It's comminig from my mind. 
It's working recusrively, and for strings of any size. 

/*
** str_filter.c
** (c) smals 1992
** Delforge jm 2641
*/

#include <dos.h>

int StrFilter (char * str, char * mask)
{
	char * pm, *ps;

	pm = mask;
	ps = str;

	if (*pm == 0) return (1);

	while (*pm != 0)
	{
		switch (*pm)
		{
			case '*' : 
				pm++;
				if (*ps == 0) return (1);
				while (*ps != 0)
				{
					if (StrFilter (ps, pm)) return (1);
					ps++;
				}
				return (0);
			case '?' :
				if (*ps == 0) return (0);
				ps++; pm++;
				break;
			default :
				if (*pm != *ps) return (0);
				pm++, ps++;
				break;
		}
	}
	if (*ps == 0) return (1);
	else return (0);
}

/* eof */

Jean-Marc Delforge
Smals - Belgium - Brussels
101513.2141@compuserve.com

In article <m1g2akuyph.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk>,
Jacob Lorensen <jacob@jblhome.ping.dk> wrote:
 >>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Charette <charrick@netrover.com> writes:
 >
 >    Stephane> This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the
 >    Stephane> existence of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a
 >    Stephane> file mask to an existing filename and return a TRUE or
 >    Stephane> FALSE response?
 >
 >How about this?
 >
 >   WILDMAT(3)                                             WILDMAT(3)
 >
 >
 >   NAME
 >	  wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching
 >
 >   SYNOPSIS
 >	  int
 >	  wildmat(text, pattern)
 >	      char       *text;
 >	      char       *pattern;

FYI, there is a POSIX.2 standard function called glob() for doing this.
I've never even heard of wildmat! I have checked three different major UNIX
OS's and none of them have it in their man page roster.

glob() and globfree() are also defined by the X/Open Portability Guide 4
(XPG4).
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In article <4k7icoINNp4c@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
           c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca "Kazimir Kylheku" writes:

> 
> FYI, there is a POSIX.2 standard function called glob() for doing this.
> I've never even heard of wildmat! I have checked three different major UNIX
> OS's and none of them have it in their man page roster.

I have the wildmat man page on my system (supposedly put there by Slackware --
I certainly didn't put it there)  However, I don't have thew routine, so I
wrote my own in the end.

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>>>>> "Kazimir" == Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> writes:

    Kazimir> In article <m1g2akuyph.fsf@pippin.jblhome.ping.dk>, Jacob
    Kazimir> Lorensen <jacob@jblhome.ping.dk> wrote:

    >>>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Charette <charrick@netrover.com>
    >>>>>>> writes:

    Stephane> This is a long shot...but...does anyone know of the
    Stephane> existence of public domain C/C++ code which will apply a
    Stephane> file mask to an existing filename and return a TRUE or
    Stephane> FALSE response?

    >> WILDMAT(3) WILDMAT(3)

    >> NAME wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching

    >> SYNOPSIS int wildmat(text, pattern) char *text; char *pattern;

    Kazimir> I've never even heard of wildmat! I have checked three
    Kazimir> different major UNIX OS's and none of them have it in 
    Kazimir> their man page roster.

No, I would not have thought so. That's also the reason I put a bit of
extra information in my article, namely (also from the manual page):

   HISTORY
	  Written  by  Rich  $alz  <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> in 1986, and
	  posted to Usenet several times since then, most notably in
	  comp.sources.misc in March, 1991.

I.e., it appears to be a freely available library written by Rick Salz
and posted to Usenet. As the description of the routine's
functionality matches that requested by the original poster (Stephane
Charette), namely to match a set of file names against a shell-style
globbing pattern, I still think it may be a good idea to try and find
it. Glob() searches the directory itself and thus can _only_ be used
to find file names; wildmat() can be used to match arbitrary strings,
including filenames, against a pattern.

BTW, wildmat() is included in the INN distribution.

Jacob.

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