Using index(), I can find out if a string contains a specified substring.
Similarly, I can use a regular expression test to find out if a string
matches a particular pattern. What I'm LOOKING FOR is a way to find out
if a string matches a particular "wild card" character sequence, as used
in glob(), etc. For example:
if (wcm($string, '/{foo,bar}.h') { ...
should match both
$string = '/etc/bar.h';
$string = '/usr/bar.h';
but not
$string = '/etc/baz.h;
I suspect that I could munge the wild card expressions into REs, but I'm
hoping someone has already done this (or developed an alternative).
Help?
-r
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