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nehaquick, come on now!

It is painfully clear to all of us that this is H-O-M-E-W-O-R-K ! You will find much more satisfaction in your work with the UNIX operating system by finding out yourself how this is done. We all, who could answer your question, have learned it once doing the same: not letting others do our work, but finding out ourselves how to solve this (and other) kind(s) of problem(s).

And as we experts are getting older and would like to see the message passed on instead of going wasted before the heathens, there is a rule imposed which enforces learning among the unixally impaired: the answering of homework questions is forbidden. Do it yourself!

bakunin

PS: by the way, this thread is violating our rules and therefore i wield my wand of thread-consummation against it ..... hnnnn....

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gmatch

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 5.10                                                          29 Dec 1996                                                       gmatch(3GEN)