1 /* Determine whether string value is affirmation or negative response
2 according to current locale's data.
3 Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
23 #if STDC_HEADERS || _LIBC
33 # include <sys/types.h>
39 # define _(Text) gettext (Text)
42 try (const char *response
, const char *pattern
, const int match
,
43 const int nomatch
, const char **lastp
, regex_t
*re
)
45 if (pattern
!= *lastp
)
47 /* The pattern has changed. */
50 /* Free the old compiled pattern. */
54 /* Compile the pattern and cache it for future runs. */
55 if (regcomp (re
, pattern
, REG_EXTENDED
) != 0)
60 /* See if the regular expression matches RESPONSE. */
61 return regexec (re
, response
, 0, NULL
, 0) == 0 ? match
: nomatch
;
67 rpmatch (const char *response
)
70 /* Match against one of the response patterns, compiling the pattern
71 first if necessary. */
73 /* We cache the response patterns and compiled regexps here. */
74 static const char *yesexpr
, *noexpr
;
75 static regex_t yesre
, nore
;
78 return ((result
= try (response
, _("^[yY]"), 1, 0,
81 : try (response
, _("^[nN]"), 0, -1, &noexpr
, &nore
));
83 /* Test against "^[yY]" and "^[nN]", hardcoded to avoid requiring regex */
84 return (*response
== 'y' || *response
== 'Y' ? 1
85 : *response
== 'n' || *response
== 'N' ? 0 : -1);