[PATCH -tip 7/8] perf tools: Enhance glob string matching

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>]

Enhance strglobmatch() for supporting character classes([CHARS],
complementation and ranges are also supported) and escaped special
characters (\*, \? etc).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
---

 tools/perf/util/string.c |   65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
index 5352d7d..c397d4f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
@@ -227,16 +227,73 @@ fail:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-/* Glob expression pattern matching */
+/* Character class matching */
+static bool __match_charclass(const char *pat, char c, const char **npat)
+{
+	bool complement = false, ret = true;
+
+	if (*pat == '!') {
+		complement = true;
+		pat++;
+	}
+	if (*pat++ == c)	/* First character is special */
+		goto end;
+
+	while (*pat && *pat != ']') {	/* Matching */
+		if (*pat == '-' && *(pat + 1) != ']') {	/* Range */
+			if (*(pat - 1) <= c && c <= *(pat + 1))
+				goto end;
+			if (*(pat - 1) > *(pat + 1))
+				goto error;
+			pat += 2;
+		} else if (*pat++ == c)
+			goto end;
+	}
+	if (!*pat)
+		goto error;
+	ret = false;
+
+end:
+	while (*pat && *pat != ']')	/* Searching closing */
+		pat++;
+	if (!*pat)
+		goto error;
+	*npat = pat + 1;
+	return complement ? !ret : ret;
+
+error:
+	return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strglobmatch - glob expression pattern matching
+ * @str: the target string to match
+ * @pat: the pattern string to match
+ *
+ * This returns true if the @str matches @pat. @pat can includes wildcards
+ * ('*','?') and character classes ([CHARS], complementation and ranges are
+ * also supported). Also, this supports escape character ('\') to use special
+ * characters as normal character.
+ *
+ * Note: if @pat syntax is broken, this always returns false.
+ */
 bool strglobmatch(const char *str, const char *pat)
 {
 	while (*str && *pat && *pat != '*') {
-		if (*pat == '?') {
+		if (*pat == '?') {	/* Matches any single character */
 			str++;
 			pat++;
-		} else
-			if (*str++ != *pat++)
+			continue;
+		} else if (*pat == '[')	/* Character classes/Ranges */
+			if (__match_charclass(pat + 1, *str, &pat)) {
+				str++;
+				continue;
+			} else
 				return false;
+		else if (*pat == '\\') /* Escaped char match as normal char */
+			pat++;
+		if (*str++ != *pat++)
+			return false;
 	}
 	/* Check wild card */
 	if (*pat == '*') {


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com