Thread: 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.

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 .