SHell-compatible WILDcards is a small, standalone library, implemented in C++ with a C and a C++ API, that provides shell-compatible wildcard matching.
SHell-compatible WILDcards is a small, standalone library, implemented in C++ with a C and a C++ API, that provides shell-compatible wildcard matching.
The original (~2005) implementation used STLSoft, for discrimination of compilers are library support. However, if the preprocessor symbol SHWILD_NO_STLSOFT is specified, then all dependencies on STLSoft are removed and basic C++-11 features are used instead.
If STLSoft is to be used, then the makefiles require definition of the environment variable STLSOFT that should be set to the root directory of a clone of STLSoft (see Dependencies in this document).
NOTE: an upcoming version of shwild will provide CMake mechanisms for fully-automated installation.
The shwild C API comprises the following functions:
shwild_init();shwild_uninit();shwild_match();shwild_match_s();shwild_compile_pattern();shwild_compile_pattern_s();shwild_destroy_pattern();shwild_match_pattern();shwild_match_pattern_s();
and used as in the following simple example:
#include <shwild/shwild.h>
. . .
int r = shwild_init();
if (r < 0) {
. . . // report failure and exit
} else {
shwild_handle_t hCompiledPattern;
int r2 = shwild_compile_pattern("X[0-9]*", 0, &hCompiledPattern);
if (r2 < 0) {
. . . // report failure and exit
} else {
assert(0 == shwild_match_pattern(hCompiledPattern, "X0"));
assert(0 == shwild_match_pattern(hCompiledPattern, "X8abc"));
assert(0 != shwild_match_pattern(hCompiledPattern, "X"));
assert(0 != shwild_match_pattern(hCompiledPattern, "Y0"));
shwild_destroy_pattern(hCompiledPattern);
}
shwild_uninit();
}The shwild C++ API is a simple wrapper over the shwild C API, with the following components:
shwild::Pattern;shwild::PatternException;
and used as in the following simple example:
#include <shwild/shwild.hpp>
. . .
shwild::Pattern pattern("X[0-9]*", 0);
assert( pattern.match("X0"));
assert( pattern.match("X8abc"));
assert(!pattern.match("X"));
assert(!pattern.match("Y0"));
Examples are provided in the examples directory, along with a markdown description for each.
Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on https://github.com/synesissoftware/shwild.
The C++ API depends on the STLSoft libraries, version 1.9.134 (or later). Version 1.10.1 beta19 (or later) is recommended.
- STLSoft 1.9
- STLSoft 1.10 (Recommended)
Projects in which shwild is used for testing include:
shwild is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.