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FNMATCH(3am)                          GNU Awk Extension Modules                         FNMATCH(3am)



NAME
       fnmatch - compare a string against a filename wildcard

SYNOPSIS
       @load "fnmatch"

       result = fnmatch(pattern, string, flags)

DESCRIPTION
       The  fnmatch extension provides an AWK interface to the fnmatch(3) routine.  It adds a single
       function named fnmatch(), one predefined variable (FNM_NOMATCH), and an array of flag  values
       named FNM.

       The  first argument is the filename wildcard to match, the second is the filename string, and
       the third is either zero, or the bitwise OR of one or more of the flags in the FNM array.

       The return value is zero on success, FNM_NOMATCH if the string did not match the pattern,  or
       a different non-zero value if an error occurred.

       The flags are follows:

       FNM["CASEFOLD"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_CASEFOLD flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

       FNM["FILE_NAME"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_FILE_NAME flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

       FNM["LEADING_DIR"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_LEADING_DIR flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

       FNM["NOESCAPE"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_NOESCAPE flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

       FNM["PATHNAME"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_PATHNAME flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

       FNM["PERIOD"]
              Corresponds to the FNM_PERIOD flag as defined in fnmatch(3).

NOTES
       Nothing prevents AWK code from changing the predefined variable FNM_NOMATCH, but doing so may
       cause strange results.

EXAMPLE
       @load "fnmatch"
       ...
       flags = or(FNM["PERIOD"], FNM["NOESCAPE"])
       if (fnmatch("*.a", "foo.c", flags) == FNM_NOMATCH)
            print "no match"

SEE ALSO
       GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fork(3am), inplace(3am), ordchr(3am),  read‐
       dir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am), time(3am).

       fnmatch(3).

AUTHOR
       Arnold Robbins, arnold AT skeeve.com.

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Free Software Foundation                     Feb 21 2018                                FNMATCH(3am)