Appendix C Wildcard Patterns; Wildcard Patterns - Netscape ENTERPRISE SERVER 6.1 - NSAPI PROGRAMMER GUIDE Manual

This appendix describes the format of wildcard patterns used by the Netscape
Enterprise Server.
These wildcards are used in:
• directives in the configuration file
obj.conf")
• various built-in SAFs (see Chapter 3, "Predefined SAFs and the Request
Handling Process")
• some NSAPI functions (see Chapter 5, "NSAPI Function Reference")
Wildcard patterns use special characters. If you want to use one of these characters
without the special meaning, precede it with a backslash (\) character.

Wildcard Patterns

Wildcard pattern
Table C-1
Pattern Use
Match zero or more characters.
*
Match exactly one occurrence of any character.
?
An OR expression. The substrings used with this operator can contain other special characters
|
such as * or $. The substrings must be enclosed in parentheses, for example, (a|b|c), but the
parentheses cannot be nested.
Match the end of the string. This is useful in or expressions.
$
Match one occurrence of the characters a, b, or c.
[abc]
Match one occurrence of a character between a and z.
[a-z]
s
Wildcard Patterns
(see Chapter 2, "Syntax and Use of
obj.conf
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