FILEPAT(2) FILEPAT(2) NAME filepat: expand, match - file pattern matching SYNOPSIS include "filepat.m"; filepat := load Filepat Filepat->PATH; expand: fn(pat: string): list of string; match: fn(pat, name: string): int; DESCRIPTION Expand builds a list of file names in alphabetical order that match the pattern pat. The pattern is tokenised using / as a delimiter. Match returns 1 if name matches the pattern pat, and 0 oth- erwise. The pat passed to match and expand may include combinations of the special characters *, ?, [, and ]. The asterisk * matches a string of zero or more characters. The query ? matches any single character. The notation [s], where s is a nonempty string, matches any single character in s. The notation [^s], where s is a nonempty string, matches any single character not in s. The characters *, ?, and [ have no special meaning within s. If any character is preceded by the character \, that char- acter loses any special meaning and is interpreted liter- ally. SOURCE /appl/lib/filepat.b SEE ALSO sys-tokenize(2), readdir(2) regex(2) Page 1 Plan 9 (printed 11/17/24)