9693c13824652b5ffa51b2dd9770dcddb1e03385
kent
  Thu Feb 5 22:07:15 2015 -0800
Added wildExpandList() function.

diff --git src/inc/common.h src/inc/common.h
index 45ce154..16e6c37 100644
--- src/inc/common.h
+++ src/inc/common.h
@@ -836,30 +836,36 @@
 /* Look for character c sometime before s, but going no further than limit.
  * Return NULL if not found. */
 
 boolean wildMatch(const char *wildCard, const char *string);
 /* does a case insensitive wild card match with a string.
  * * matches any string or no character.
  * ? matches any single character.
  * anything else etc must match the character exactly. */
 
 boolean sqlMatchLike(char *wildCard, char *string);
 /* Match using % and _ wildcards. */
 
 boolean anyWild(const char *string);
 /* Return TRUE if any wild card characters in string. */
 
+struct slName *wildExpandList(struct slName *allList, struct slName *wildList, 
+    boolean abortMissing);
+/* Wild list is a list of names, possibly including * and ? wildcard characters.  This 
+ * function returns names taken from allList that match patterns in wildList.  Works much
+ * like wildcard expansion over a file system but expands over allList instead. */
+
 char *memMatch(char *needle, int nLen, char *haystack, int hLen);
 /* Returns first place where needle (of nLen chars) matches
  * haystack (of hLen chars) */
 
 void toUpperN(char *s, int n);
 /* Convert a section of memory to upper case. */
 
 void toLowerN(char *s, int n);
 /* Convert a section of memory to lower case. */
 
 void toggleCase(char *s, int size);
 /* toggle upper and lower case chars in string. */
 
 char *strUpper(char *s);
 #define touppers(s) (void)strUpper(s)