gpattern.h

/* GLIB - Library of useful routines for C programming
 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 1999  Peter Mattis, Red Hat, Inc.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 */
#ifndef __G_PATTERN_H__
#define __G_PATTERN_H__

#include <gtypes.h>

G_BEGIN_DECLS

typedef enum
{
  G_MATCH_ALL,       /* "*A?A*" */
  G_MATCH_ALL_TAIL,  /* "*A?AA" */
  G_MATCH_HEAD,      /* "AAAA*" */
  G_MATCH_TAIL,      /* "*AAAA" */
  G_MATCH_EXACT,     /* "AAAAA" */
  G_MATCH_LAST
} GMatchType;

typedef struct _GPatternSpec    GPatternSpec;
struct _GPatternSpec
{
  GMatchType match_type;
  guint      pattern_length;
  gchar     *pattern;
  gchar     *pattern_reversed;
};

GPatternSpec* g_pattern_spec_new       (const gchar  *pattern);
void          g_pattern_spec_free      (GPatternSpec *pspec);
gboolean      g_pattern_match          (GPatternSpec *pspec,
					guint         string_length,
					const gchar  *string,
					const gchar  *string_reversed);
gboolean      g_pattern_match_string   (GPatternSpec *pspec,
					const gchar  *string);
gboolean      g_pattern_match_simple   (const gchar  *pattern,
					const gchar  *string);

G_END_DECLS

#endif /* __G_PATTERN_H__ */