Compares values case sensitive and similar to uLike but uses the UNIX file globbing syntax for its wildcard characters.
bool uGlob(pattern, text)
A string describing a match pattern.
A string to investigate.
To compare values using UNIX file-globbing syntax:
uGlob("Mr. *", "Mr. Smith") // returns 1, indicating a match
uGlob("Mr. *", "Mrs. Clarke") // returns 0
Performs a pattern-matching comparison. The first parameter contains the pattern, and the second parameter contains the string to match against the pattern. A percent symbol ( % ) in the pattern matches any sequence of zero or more characters in the string. An underscore ( _ ) in the pattern matches any single character in the string. Any other character matches itself or its lowercase or uppercase equivalent (in other words, not case-sensitive matching).
Currently uLike only understands
uppercase and lowercase for 7-bit Latin characters; thus the uLike is
case sensitive for 8-bit iso8859 characters or UTF-8 characters.
For example:
uLike('a' ,'A') is 1
uLike('æ' ,'Æ') is 0
number uLike(pattern, text)
A string describing a match pattern.
A string to investigate.
To compare values using pattern-matching:
uLike("% happy %", "A happy man.") // returns 1
uLike("% happy %", "A sad man.") // returns 0
Returns true if a given string matches a regular expression.
number uMatches(input, regexpr)
A string to investigate.
Regular expression specification.
To verify that a string can be interpreted as a floating number:
uMatches("abc","[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*") // return 0uMatches("1.23","[-+]?[0-9]*\.?[0-9]*") // return 1
