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String Pattern-Matching Library Functions            gmatch(3GEN)



NAME
     gmatch - shell global pattern matching

SYNOPSIS
     cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lgen [ library ... ]
     #include 

     int gmatch(const char *str, const char *pattern);


DESCRIPTION
     gmatch()  checks  whether  the  null-terminated  string  str
     matches  the null-terminated pattern string pattern. See the
     sh(1), section  File Name Generation, for  a  discussion  of
     pattern matching. A backslash (\) is used as an escape char-
     acter in pattern strings.

RETURN VALUES
     gmatch() returns non-zero if the pattern matches the string,
     zero if the pattern does not.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Examples of gmatch() function.


     In the following example, gmatch() returns  non-zero  (true)
     for all strings with "a" or "-" as their last character.


       char *s;
       gmatch (s, "*[a\-]" )


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | MT-Level                    | MT-Safe                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     sh(1), attributes(5)

NOTES
     When compiling multithreaded  applications,  the  _REENTRANT
     flag  must be defined on the compile line.  This flag should



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