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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-02-16 21:37:58 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-02-16 21:37:58 (GMT)
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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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--- a/Doc/libfnmatch.tex
+++ b/Doc/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}