match

func Allowable ¶

func Allowable(pattern string) (min, max string)

Allowable parses the pattern and determines the minimum and maximum allowable values that the pattern can represent. When the max cannot be determined, 'true' will be returned for infinite.

func IsPattern ¶

func IsPattern(str string) bool

IsPattern returns true if the string is a pattern.

func Match ¶

func Match(str, pattern string) bool

Match returns true if str matches pattern. This is a very simple wildcard match where '*' matches on any number characters and '?' matches on any one character.

pattern:

{ term }

term:

'*'         matches any sequence of non-Separator characters
'?'         matches any single non-Separator character
c           matches character c (c != '*', '?', '\\')
'\\' c      matches character c