I have a string input to my program of the form:
con*.cc
I want this to represent the regular expression, con.*.cc.
How can I do this inside a C program? Is there something like sed that I can use?
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I have a string input to my program of the form:
con*.cc
I want this to represent the regular expression, con.*.cc.
How can I do this inside a C program? Is there something like sed that I can use?
I’m guessing you really just want globbing rather than full on regular expressions. If you’re running under Linux, you can use the glob function. I imagine there’s a more portable way of doing it, but I don’t know of one offhand.