Function match

reports whether name matches the shell pattern.

Remarks

The pattern syntax is:

    pattern:
        { term }
    term:
        '*'         matches any sequence of non-/ characters
        '?'         matches any single non-/ character
        '[' [ '^' ] { character-range } ']'
                    character class (must be non-empty)
        c           matches character c (c != '*', '?', '\\', '[')
        '\\' c      matches character c

    character-range:
        c           matches character c (c != '\\', '-', ']')
        '\\' c      matches character c
        lo '-' hi   matches character c for lo <= c <= hi

Match requires pattern to match all of name, not just a substring. The only possible throw error is SyntaxError, when pattern is malformed.

Throws

SyntaxError

Example

consoloe.log(match("abc", "abc")) // true
consoloe.log(match("a*", "abc")) // true
consoloe.log(match("a*/b", "a/c/b")) // false