sunlabs.brazil.util

Class Glob

public class Glob extends Object

Glob-style string matching and substring extraction. Glob was implemented by translating the glob package for tcl8.0. Each of the substrings matching (?, *, or [..]) are returned.

Version: 2.16

Author: Colin Stevens (colin.stevens@sun.com)

Method Summary
static booleanmatch(String pattern, String string)
Match a string against a pattern.
static booleanmatch(String pattern, String string, String[] substr)
Match a string against a pattern, and return sub-matches.

Method Detail

match

public static boolean match(String pattern, String string)
Match a string against a pattern.

Parameters: pattern Glob pattern. Nothing matches if pattern==null. string String to match against pattern.

Returns: true if the string matched the pattern, false otherwise.

match

public static boolean match(String pattern, String string, String[] substr)
Match a string against a pattern, and return sub-matches.

The caller can provide an array of strings that will be filled in with the substrings of string that matched the glob meta-characters in pattern. The array of strings may be partially modified even if the string did not match the glob pattern. The array may contain more elements than glob meta-characters, in which case those extra elements will not be modified; the array may also contain fewer elements or even be null, to ignore some or all of the glob meta-characters. In other words, the user can pass pretty much anything and this method defines errors out of existence.

Parameters: pattern Glob pattern. string String to match against pattern. substr Array of strings provided by the caller, to be filled in with the substrings that matched the glob meta-characters. May be null.

Returns: true if the string matched the pattern, false otherwise.