Manpages - CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION.3

CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION - wildcard match callback

  #include <curl/curl.h>

  int fnmatch_callback(void *ptr,
                       const char *pattern,
                       const char *string);

  CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION,
                            fnmatch_callback);

Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype shown above.

This callback is used for wildcard matching.

Return CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_MATCH if pattern matches the string, CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_NOMATCH if not or CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_FAIL if an error occurred.

NULL == an internal function for wildcard matching.

FTP

  static int my_fnmatch(void *clientp,
                        const char *pattern, const char *string)
  {
    struct local_stuff *data = (struct local_stuff *)clientp;
    if(string_match(pattern, string))
      return CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_MATCH;
    else
      return CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_NOMATCH;
  }

  {
    struct local_stuff local_data;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://ftp.example.com/file*");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION, my_fnmatch);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA, &local_data);
  }

Added in 7.21.0

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

*CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA*(3), *CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION*(3),