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diff --git a/Doc/libfnmatch.tex b/Doc/libfnmatch.tex deleted file mode 100644 index f2f82ba..0000000 --- a/Doc/libfnmatch.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -\section{Standard Module \module{fnmatch}} -\label{module-fnmatch} -\stmodindex{fnmatch} - -This module provides support for \UNIX{} shell-style wildcards, which -are \emph{not} the same as regular expressions (which are documented -in the \module{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special characters -used in shell-style wildcards are: - -\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{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 (\module{glob} uses \function{fnmatch()} to -match filename segments). - - -\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatch}{filename, pattern} -Test whether the \var{filename} string matches the \var{pattern} -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 \function{fnmatchcase()} -instead. -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatchcase}{filename, pattern} -Test whether \var{filename} matches \var{pattern}, returning true or -false; the comparision is case-sensitive. -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{seealso} -\seemodule{glob}{Shell-style path expansion} -\end{seealso} |