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+/*
+
+match.c
+
+Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
+
+Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
+                   All rights reserved
+
+Created: Thu Jun 22 01:17:50 1995 ylo
+
+Simple pattern matching, with '*' and '?' as wildcards.
+
+*/
+
+#include "includes.h"
+RCSID("$Id: match.c,v 1.1 1999/10/27 03:42:44 damien Exp $");
+
+#include "ssh.h"
+
+/* Returns true if the given string matches the pattern (which may contain
+   ? and * as wildcards), and zero if it does not match. */
+	  
+int match_pattern(const char *s, const char *pattern)
+{
+  while (1)
+    {
+      /* If at end of pattern, accept if also at end of string. */
+      if (!*pattern)
+        return !*s;
+
+      /* Process '*'. */
+      if (*pattern == '*')
+        {
+	  /* Skip the asterisk. */
+	  pattern++;
+
+	  /* If at end of pattern, accept immediately. */
+          if (!*pattern)
+            return 1;
+
+	  /* If next character in pattern is known, optimize. */
+          if (*pattern != '?' && *pattern != '*')
+            {
+	      /* Look instances of the next character in pattern, and try
+		 to match starting from those. */
+              for (; *s; s++)
+                if (*s == *pattern &&
+                    match_pattern(s + 1, pattern + 1))
+                  return 1;
+	      /* Failed. */
+              return 0;
+            }
+
+	  /* Move ahead one character at a time and try to match at each
+	     position. */
+          for (; *s; s++)
+            if (match_pattern(s, pattern))
+              return 1;
+	  /* Failed. */
+          return 0;
+        }
+
+      /* There must be at least one more character in the string.  If we are
+	 at the end, fail. */
+      if (!*s)
+        return 0;
+
+      /* Check if the next character of the string is acceptable. */
+      if (*pattern != '?' && *pattern != *s)
+	return 0;
+      
+      /* Move to the next character, both in string and in pattern. */
+      s++;
+      pattern++;
+    }
+  /*NOTREACHED*/
+}