NSAPI Programmer's Guide for iPlanet Web Server

Wildcard Patterns

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.
[abc]	Match one occurrence of the characters a, b, or c. Within these expressions, the only character that needs to be treated as a special character is ]; all others are not special.
[a-z]	Match one occurrence of a character between a and z.
[^az]	Match any character except a or z.
*~	This expression, followed by another expression, removes any pattern matching the second expression.

Pattern	Result
*.netscape.com	Matches any string ending with the characters `.netscape.com`.
(quark\|energy).netscape.com	Matches either `quark.netscape.com` or `energy.netscape.com`.
198.93.9[23].???	Matches a numeric string starting with either `198.93.92` or `198.93.93` and ending with any 3 characters.
.	Matches any string with a period in it.
~netscape-	Matches any string except those starting with `netscape-`.
*.netscape.com~quark.netscape.com	Matches any host from domain `netscape.com` except for a single host `quark.netscape.com`.
*.netscape.com~(quark\|energy\|neutrino).netscape.com	Matches any host from domain .`netscape.com` except for hosts `quark.netscape.com`, `energy.netscape.com`, and `neutrino.netscape.com`.
.com~.netscape.com	Matches any host from domain `.com` except for hosts from subdomain `netscape.com`.
type=~magnus-internal/	Matches any type that does not start with `magnus-internal/`. This wildcard pattern is used in the file `obj.conf` in the catch-all `Service` directive.

Last Updated: 03/01/00 09:22:23