pattern/wild card matching

[Dave P. Schaumann]

In article <6467 at saffron1.UUCP> benyukhi at motcid.UUCP (Ed Benyukhis) writes:
>Can anyone on the net e-mail or post the sources or pointers to
>where I can find such for the pattern/wild card matching routines
>in "C".  [...]

You might look at the Gnu version of grep.  Also, if you're interested in
a good theoretical discussion, check out chapter 3 of _Compilers: Principles,
Techniques and Tools_ by Aho, Sethi & Ullman (aka the Red Dragon Book).

They give both deterministic and non-deterministic methods of wildcard
matching.






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