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fnmatchDescriptionbool fnmatch ( string pattern, string string [, int flags] )fnmatch() checks if the passed string would match the given shell wildcard pattern. This is especially useful for filenames, but may also be used on regular strings. The average user may be used to shell patterns or at least in their simplest form to '?' and '*' wildcards so using fnmatch() instead of ereg() or preg_match() for frontend search expression input may be way more convenient for non-programming users.
See also glob(), ereg(), preg_match() and the Unix manpage on fnmatch(3) for flag names (as long as they are not documented here ). Copyright © 1997 - 2007 by the PHP Documentation Group. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later. A copy of the Open Publication License is distributed with this manual, the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/. Please see full copyright text at http://www.php.net/manual/en/copyright.php Original version of the above documentation is available at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ |
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