Arguments

string  (string) the string to be verified against the pattern
pattern  (string) the wildcard pattern string

supported wildcard specifications :

* asterisk - matches any character sequence, including an empty one, and it can be used anywhere in the search pattern: at the beginning, middle, or end.

? question mark - matches any single character

# pound - matches any single numeric character

@ at - matches any single alphabetic character

. period -  Matches any single nonalphanumeric character

~ tilde - as first pattern character, it matches any characters except those of the pattern

[...] - matches any of the characters contained inside the brackets

[~...] - matches any single character not contained in the brackets

- hyphen - inside brackets, it specifies a range for a single character

, comma - separates to separate two patterns

` reverse quote - handles the next character literally

Return

returns T it string matches with the pattern, NIL otherwise

Example

(wcmatch "-ACHSE" "-A*")  T
(wcmatch "LAYERNAME" "LAY*NAME")  T
(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,XYZ")  T
(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,XY*,YZ")  T

(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,XY,YZ")   NILl
(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,X*Y,YZ")  NIL
(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,X*Y,YZ")  NIL
(wcmatch "XYZ" "A*,B*,C*,XY,YZ?")  NIL

Remarks