badboy / moenster

mønster (n) - pattern. simple glob-style pattern matching for strings

moenster

mønster (n) - pattern.

Simple glob-style pattern matching for strings. Always matches the whole string from beginning to end.

Wildcard	Description	Note
*	matches any number of any characters including none
?	matches any single character	does not handle multi-byte UTF-8 codepoints
[abc]	matches one character given in the bracket	taken as byte values
[a-z]	matches one character from the range given in the bracket	range taken from their byte values
[^abc]	matches one character that is not given in the bracket	taken as byte values
[^a-z]	matches one character that is not from the range given in the bracket	range taken from their byte values

Note: An empty bracket can never match anything.

Example

assert!(stringmatch("m*nster", "mønster"));

License

The code is under a MIT license. See LICENSE.