Can't find the correct pattern for Fnmatch in C (exclude a two digit number)

Question

I've been searching for a couple of days and I can't seem to find information on how to do this in C with fnmatch.

I'm trying to make a pattern that matches: xxxx00_xxx (x being any char, 00 being any number except 02).

So far all I've got is: ????[0-9][!2]_???
The problem, as you can see, is that it's excluding any number ending with 2 (12, 22, etc). But I'm interested in all numbers except 02.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

To solve this problem with fnmatch patterns, you need two separate patterns, for instance:

????[!0]?_???
????0[!2]_???

I chose these to avoid the possibility of any string matching both patterns, so if you're making a list of matches (e.g. using the glob function) you should be able to just concatenate your lists.