Performs a wildcard matching between a candidate and a pattern string. TRUE is returned if the strings match. Format F$MATCH_WILD(candidate, pattern)
1 – Arguments
candidate A string to which the pattern string is compared. pattern A string on which a wildcard match is performed comparing the pattern to the candidate string.
2 – Example
$ write sys$output f$match_wild ("This is a candidate","*c%%d*") TRUE $ This command performs a wildcard match between the candidate candidate and pattern *c%%d* and found that the strings match. $ write sys$output f$match_wild ("This is a candidate text", "*candi*) TRUE $ This command checks to see if the pattern candi appears in the candidate.