Function
GLibpattern_match
deprecated: 2.70 since: 2.0
Declaration
gboolean
g_pattern_match (
GPatternSpec* pspec,
guint string_length,
const gchar* string,
const gchar* string_reversed
)
Description
Matches a string against a compiled pattern. Passing the correct
length of the string given is mandatory. The reversed string can be
omitted by passing NULL
, this is more efficient if the reversed
version of the string to be matched is not at hand, as
g_pattern_match()
will only construct it if the compiled pattern
requires reverse matches.
Note that, if the user code will (possibly) match a string against a multitude of patterns containing wildcards, chances are high that some patterns will require a reversed string. In this case, it’s more efficient to provide the reversed string to avoid multiple constructions thereof in the various calls to g_pattern_match().
Note also that the reverse of a UTF-8 encoded string can in general
not be obtained by g_strreverse(). This works only if the string
does not contain any multibyte characters. GLib offers the
g_utf8_strreverse()
function to reverse UTF-8 encoded strings.
Available since: 2.0
Deprecated since: 2.70
Use g_pattern_spec_match()
instead.
This function is not directly available to language bindings.
Parameters
pspec
-
Type:
GPatternSpec
A
GPatternSpec
.The data is owned by the caller of the function. string_length
-
Type:
guint
The length of
string
(in bytes, i.e. strlen(), not g_utf8_strlen()) string
-
Type:
const gchar*
The UTF-8 encoded string to match.
The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. string_reversed
-
Type:
const gchar*
The reverse of
string
orNULL
.The argument can be NULL
.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.