Hello Mike!

Tuesday August 13 1996 06:31, Mike Burgett wrote to Doug Nazar:

MB> I don't know that the string will always be so simple though. If I wanted
MB> to find files matching a _filemask_ of zee??11?.t* for example, I could do
MB> it with (I think :) a regex of zee..11.\.t.* which would be a bear to
MB> do without the regex code.  I was just trying some simple tests to see that
MB> the code was working.

Hmmm.... IMHO regexs are overkill for filename matching. I would probably
have used XSTRCMP.c from Snippets. It supports ? and * and you don't need
to "translate" the pattern. Regexs are wicked in an editor
especially for search & replace. 


Doug

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