Example: Match a string against a compiled pattern (full)

public static int main (string[] args) {
PatternSpec spec = new PatternSpec ("dilbert-????/??/??.*");

// Output: ``true``
string str = "dilbert-1999/39/01.png";
bool res = spec.match (str.length, str, str.reverse ());
print ("%s\n", res.to_string ());

// Output: ``true``
str = "dilbert-1999/39/01.jpg";
res = spec.match (str.length, str, null);
print ("%s\n", res.to_string ());

// Output: ``false``
str = "dilbert-1999X/39/01.jpg";
res = spec.match (str.length, str, null);
print ("%s\n", res.to_string ());

return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 GLib.PatternSpec.match.vala

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