Re: help for not "Match all word only" in search feature

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Hmmm; the implementation for this is not quite
the hard part (but still tough); the hard part is 
brain-farting a standard that everyone will be comfortable with.

consider "attenti[ov][ne]" which by bash standards
will yield either "attention" or "attentive" (or of
course the bad matches attentioe and attentivn).

It's also harder to do this in a text file;
consider the string "*." and lets say that
your text file end in a "." (terminating a sentence);
your search risks returning the entire document as 
a match.

(of course when parsing the unice `struct dirent'
you can rely on standard filelengths and the face
that filenames are matches; not the end of one filename
concatenated withe the beginning of the next).

Maybe strict single phrase only matching is your solution ?

> in Microsoft word and many application of windows, there is "search"
> feature which we could find some string in text.
> how about the "wildcard".
Hmmm; lets hope we beat them to it ;-)


Good luck,
                -Tristan

xiening wrote:
> dear sir/madam:
> in Microsoft word and many application of windows, there is "search"
> feature which we could find some string in text.
> how about the "wildcard".
> i want use
> char * strstr(A_string, test_string)
>     for "match all word only":
> how about many wildcards just like following?
> *       for any number of any char(s)
> [a-h]   for any a to h char
> \<      for first head
> etc.
> could you tell me the code that search a A_string by another string with
> wildcard?
> I find there is no this feature in abiword and gedit. through gnumoric
> contains this feature. it is not for wild but for a complete word.
> thank a lot for your attention
> xn
>
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