Class Glob
java.lang.Object
sunlabs.brazil.util.Glob
Glob-style string matching and substring extraction. Glob was
implemented by translating the glob package for
tcl8.0.
- "*" matches 0 or more characters
- "?" matches a single character
- "[...]" matches a set and/or range of characters
- "\" following character is not special
- Version:
- 2.16
- Author:
- Colin Stevens (colin.stevens@sun.com)
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Method Summary
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Method Details
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match
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match
Match a string against a pattern, and return sub-matches.The caller can provide an array of strings that will be filled in with the substrings of
string
that matched the glob meta-characters inpattern
. The array of strings may be partially modified even if the string did not match the glob pattern. The array may contain more elements than glob meta-characters, in which case those extra elements will not be modified; the array may also contain fewer elements or even benull
, to ignore some or all of the glob meta-characters. In other words, the user can pass pretty much anything and this method defines errors out of existence.- Parameters:
pattern
- Glob pattern.string
- String to match against pattern.substr
- Array of strings provided by the caller, to be filled in with the substrings that matched the glob meta-characters. May benull
.- Returns:
true
if the string matched the pattern,false
otherwise.
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