Globs and Regexps
A number of WebMake parameters and perl APIs support pattern matching.
This is performed using glob patterns and regular expressions.
Glob Patterns
These are more-or-less traditional shell- or MS-DOS-like globs, as follows:
*
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matches any number of characters except /
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...
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matches any number of characters, including /
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?
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matches one character
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This is the default mode of matching. Example globs are:
*.html, .../*.txt.
Regular Expressions
These are perl-style regular expressions. They are differentiated
from glob patterns by prefixing them with RE:, for example:
RE:^.*\.html$ .
For more details, check your perl documentation, or search the web.
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