Wildcard string matching

Hi:

So I'm trying to match a string against a wildcard to see whether they match. I'm using a snippet found here: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb...=1680&lngWId=3

However, this doesn't seem to be working. My code implementation is as follows:

Code:

for (int i = 0; i < allFiles.size(); i++)
			{
				char *buf1 = new char[allFiles[i].size() + 1];
				char *buf2 = new char[files.size() + 1];

				strcpy(buf1, allFiles[i].c_str());
				strcpy(buf2, files.c_str());
				cout <<allFiles[i] <<" " <<wildcmp(buf1, buf2) <<endl;
				if (wildcmp(buf1, buf2))
				{
					searchFile(allFiles[i]);
				}
			}

allFiles is a vector with a directory listing of that directory. files is a string containing the wildcard (so like t*.cpp).

Please let me know what's going on. wildcmp always returns 0.

Thanks.

Looking at the snippet from the site, I think you passed the strings backwards. The string with wildcards is the first parameter, while what you want to match it against is next.

Originally Posted by citizen

Looking at the snippet from the site, I think you passed the strings backwards. The string with wildcards is the first parameter, while what you want to match it against is next.

Good point. That fixed it .

BTW, if wildcmp took const char*, you wouldn't have to copy the C++ strings into the character arrays. You might be able to just add the const and it would still compile so you can pass the result of c_str() directly to that function.