[comp.sys.amiga.tech] pattern matching

jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (07/04/90)

>>In article <12396@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>> 	Wildcard expansion is much easier to do now, due to matchfirst/
>>> matchnext.
>
>I hope these are not just for matching file names (as in similarly
>named MSDOS calls), but allow pattern matching on any string.  Some
>people would like to use pattern matching for other than file names.

	ParsePattern (makes tokenized string) and MatchPattern (matches
tokenized pattern against string).  Poof.

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