Find strings matching a pattern, similar to regular expressions.
This is a single header file library for C. It is primarily composed of 2 files:
glob.h: Single header file library.glob.c: Command-line program which... TODO
To include glob in your C program:
#define RTB_GLOB_IMPLbefore#include "glob.h"in a single file.- Just
#include "glob.h"everywhere else.
See glob.c for an example.
This implementation of glob follows the pattern quantifiers standardized by POSIX.2. The following descriptions were taken from Wikipedia with slight modifications.
?(not in brackets) matches any character exactly once.*(not in brackets) matches a string of zero or more characters.
[...], where the first character within the brackets is not!, matches any single character among the characters specified in the brackets. If the first character within brackets is!, then the[!...]matches any single character that is not among the characters specified in the brackets.- The characters in the brackets may be a set (
[abc]) or a range ([a-c]). - For the sake of simplicity, character classes (like
[[:space:]], where the inner brackets are part of the classname) are not supported.
Source of above definitions (with slight modifications): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)
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