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wildmatch

Simple string matching with single- and multi-character wildcard operator

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wildmatch

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Match strings against a simple wildcard pattern. Tests a wildcard pattern p against an input string s. Returns true only when p matches the entirety of s.

See also the example described on wikipedia for matching wildcards.

  • ? matches exactly one occurrence of any character.
  • * matches arbitrary many (including zero) occurrences of any character.
  • No escape characters are defined.

Can also be used with a custom match pattern to define own wildcard patterns for single and multi-character matching.

For example the pattern ca? will match cat or car. The pattern https://* will match all https urls, such as https://google.de or https://github.com/becheran/wildmatch.

The following table shows a performance benchmarks between wildmatch, regex,glob, and the regex_lite libraries:

Benchmark wildmatch regex glob regex_lite
compiling/text 462 ns 39,714 ns 1,470 ns 13,210 ns
compiling/complex 190 ns 153,830 ns 238 ns 60 ns
matching/text 186 ns 4,065 ns 456 ns 6,097 ns
matching/complex 310 ns 16,085 ns 1,426 ns 3,773 ns

The library only depends on the rust stdlib.

See the documentation for usage and more examples.

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