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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Matching string Post 302168519 by joeyg on Monday 18th of February 2008 04:53:20 PM
Old 02-18-2008
Tools with a few additions...

Code:
WORD="nasty"
cnt=0
known="n"
while [ $known = "n" ]
do
   echo -e "Input a char: \c"
   read CHAR
   CHARS="${CHARS}${CHAR}"
   ((cnt = cnt + 1))
   disp=$(echo "$WORD" | sed "s/[^${CHARS}]/-/g")
   echo $disp
   if [ $WORD = $disp ]
      then
      known="y"
   fi
done 
echo $cnt" guesses"

 

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gmatch(3GEN)					     String Pattern-Matching Library Functions					      gmatch(3GEN)

NAME
gmatch - shell global pattern matching SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lgen [ library ... ] #include <libgen.h> 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 character 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 attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 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 only be used in mul- tithreaded applications. SunOS 5.11 29 Dec 1996 gmatch(3GEN)
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