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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-02-16 21:37:58 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-02-16 21:37:58 (GMT) |
commit | 009ab92c12cadb202996c54d73d0eb661a62f734 (patch) | |
tree | 4e7e9fbac15d2736a65987a03f23ae24950b2947 /Doc/lib | |
parent | 75fc045bf5a1e45f4c76e587dbe5384a1e4021ba (diff) | |
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Made the area for wildcards in the description wider, so we don't invade the
left margin.
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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex | 13 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex b/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex index 7aa1295..e5e2871 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex @@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ This module provides support for \UNIX{} shell-style wildcards, which are \emph{not} the same as regular expressions (which are documented -in the \code{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special characters +in the \module{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special characters used in shell-style wildcards are: -\begin{itemize} + +\begin{list}{}{\leftmargin 0.5in \labelwidth 0.45in} \item[\code{*}] matches everything \item[\code{?}] matches any single character \item[\code{[}\var{seq}\code{]}] matches any character in \var{seq} \item[\code{[!}\var{seq}\code{]}] matches any character not in \var{seq} -\end{itemize} +\end{list} Note that the filename separator (\code{'/'} on \UNIX{}) is \emph{not} special to this module. See module \code{glob}\refstmodindex{glob} -for pathname expansion (\code{glob} uses \code{fnmatch()} to +for pathname expansion (\module{glob} uses \function{fnmatch()} to match filename segments). \setindexsubitem{(in module fnmatch)} @@ -26,7 +27,8 @@ string, returning true or false. If the operating system is case-insensitive, then both parameters will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before the comparision is performed. If you require a case-sensitive comparision regardless of whether that's -standard for your operating system, use \code{fnmatchcase()} instead. +standard for your operating system, use \function{fnmatchcase()} +instead. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{fnmatchcase}{filename, pattern} @@ -35,6 +37,5 @@ false; the comparision is case-sensitive. \end{funcdesc} \begin{seealso} - \seemodule{glob}{Shell-style path expansion} \end{seealso} |