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:

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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]);
                                }
                        }

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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.

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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.

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Good point. That fixed it :o.

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.