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The Icon Bar: Programming: Universal wildcard implementation?
 
  Universal wildcard implementation?
  swirlythingy (15:23 25/5/2011)
  helpful (17:58 25/5/2011)
  Lampi (09:52 26/5/2011)
 
Martin Bazley Message #117819, posted by swirlythingy at 15:23, 25/5/2011

Posts: 460 		I've been toying with the idea of adding wildcard support to MBBack for a while (although probably not in this release), but AFAICT I'll need direct access to the OS wildcard routine itself (# for one character, * for many), because although OS_GBPB accepts wildcards, OS_SpriteOp doesn't.

So, was there ever an API for a simple string-matching routine to see if a non-wildcarded string was valid according to a wildcarded one? Or did any third parties write one? Or does anyone have any idea how to write my own?
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Bryan Hogan Message #117820, posted by helpful at 17:58, 25/5/2011, in reply to message #117819
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Posts: 249 		The RegEx module might be what you need:

http://www.fnxweb.com/software-acorn-regex.html
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James Lampard Message #117830, posted by Lampi at 09:52, 26/5/2011, in reply to message #117819
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Posts: 190 		There is an implementation of a wildcard routine in JFShared:

REM Wildcard based on that in Acorn's CopyFiles
DEFFNwildcard(test$,wild$)
IFtest$<>""ELSEIFASCwild$=ASC"*"THEN=FNwildcard(test$,MID$(wild$,2))ELSE=(wild$="")
IFwild$=""THEN=0
IF ASCtest$=ASCwild$ ORASCwild$=ASC"#"THEN=FNwildcard(MID$(test$,2),MID$(wild$,2))
IFASCwild$<>ASC"*"THEN=0
=FNwildcard(test$,MID$(wild$,2))ORFNwildcard(MID$(test$,2),wild$)
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The Icon Bar: Programming: Universal wildcard implementation?