(wcmatch)

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(wcmatch string pattern)

Search that string.

This function finds internal string matches. You can see if a certain string is found, or match it with another string.

For example, if you had a string variable called MYVAR which contained the string "SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC123\##" and you wanted to see if the characters "FRAG" were anywhere in the string you could use the wcmatch function, as follows:

(wcmatch MYVAR "*FRAG*")

If a match is found, wcmatch returns T. If no match is found, nil is returned. The wcmatch function is case-sensitive. To find a match, you should use strcase to change everything to uppercase if necessary.

You can use several wildcards for wcmatch:

Wildcard	Definition
~	(tilde) Pattern not found in string.
*	Standard wildcard; can be used anywhere.
?	Matches for a space held by a character or number; number of question marks (?) must exactly match number of characters or numbers in the string.
#	(pound) Matches any single number.
@@	Matches any single character; may not be a number.
.	(period) Matches any single non-alphanumeric character.
	(space) Matches one or more spaces.
[ ]	Matches for any of the characters enclosed in the brackets.
[~ ]	True only if there are extra characters not included in the brackets.
[ - ]	(hyphen) Searches within a predefined range pattern.
,	(comma) The "or" option.
'	(reverse quote) Read next character literally; use for special characters.

Examples

Code	Returns	Comments
(setq N "11234 TROPICANA AVE.#@")

(wcmatch N "~345")	T	"345" is not found in the pattern.
(wcmatch N "opic" )	T	"opic" is found with anything before and after.
(wcmatch N "?????????????????????")	T	There are 21 characters, numbers and spaces in this string.
(wmatch N "#####*")	T	Matches 5 digits, followed by anything.

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