Re: [sr-dev] git:master: textopsx: added fnmatch(value, expr, flags) function

Hello,

On 12/20/11 12:15 PM, Juha Heinanen wrote:

Daniel-Constantin Mierla writes:

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+if(fnmatch("$rU", "123*"))

daniel,

would this be the same as starts_with("$rU", "123")? if so, i suspect that starts_with would be even faster.

perhaps starts_with() is faster for this case.

if i write

if(fnmatch("$rU", "*123")) ...

would match require that $rU ends with 123?

yes. Practically fnmatch uses the shell-like pattern matching, which is used for example with 'ls' command. You can have wildcards like * or ? at any position in the value, not only start or end. fnmatch is present as operator for quite long time in avpops/avp_check() and might be handy when needing to do such simple matching instead of using full regexp.

Cheers, Daniel