Best way to program string matching in C?

[theGlove]

Hi All,
I would like to write a unix C/C++ program that can search strings with wildcards,
ie, if I had the string "Nothing spoken like the truth" and I had a search string "spoken * the *", then the string search should match.

does this make sense? Is there a library I could use (maybe perl like) to do this?
thanks

 

[singh]

You can use regular expressions. The syntax is a bit more involved (but much more powerful). For C++, you can use boost's regex: http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/. If you want to use C, there are other libraries available.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

fnmatch() on unix

 

[bersl2]

Just use the POSIX regexes that come with glibc; read regcomp(3) and regex(7).

 

[theGlove]

thanks, the regex and regcomp work nicely