Struct
GLibPatternSpec
Description [src]
struct GPatternSpec {
/* No available fields */
}
A GPatternSpec struct is the ‘compiled’ form of a glob-style pattern.
The g_pattern_match_simple() and g_pattern_spec_match() functions
match a string against a pattern containing * and ? wildcards with similar
semantics as the standard glob() function: * matches an arbitrary,
possibly empty, string, ? matches an arbitrary character.
Note that in contrast to glob(), the / character can be
matched by the wildcards, there are no […] character ranges and * and ?
can not be escaped to include them literally in a pattern.
When multiple strings must be matched against the same pattern, it is better
to compile the pattern to a GPatternSpec using
g_pattern_spec_new() and use g_pattern_spec_match_string()
instead of g_pattern_match_simple(). This avoids the overhead of repeated
pattern compilation.
Instance methods
g_pattern_spec_equal
Compares two compiled pattern specs and returns whether they will match the same set of strings.