From 5ef51b3e266cf43411947248886372001fdb207a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Judd Vinet <judd@archlinux.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 23:29:49 +0000
Subject: Merging in recent fixes/additions from 2.9.7

---
 src/pacman/util.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/pacman/util.c')

diff --git a/src/pacman/util.c b/src/pacman/util.c
index 1d3844a3..5a60070b 100644
--- a/src/pacman/util.c
+++ b/src/pacman/util.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <regex.h>
 #ifdef CYGWIN
 #include <limits.h> /* PATH_MAX */
 #endif
@@ -224,4 +225,19 @@ int yesno(char *fmt, ...)
 	return(0);
 }
 
+/* match a string against a regular expression */
+int reg_match(char *string, char *pattern)
+{
+	int result;
+	regex_t reg;
+
+	if(regcomp(&reg, pattern, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE) != 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "error: %s is not a valid regular expression.\n", pattern);
+		return(-1);
+	}
+	result = regexec(&reg, string, 0, 0, 0);
+	regfree(&reg);
+	return(!(result));
+}
+
 /* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */
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