Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> I considered strtok, but strtok & strtok_r are documented as modifying
>> their argument. Perhaps they don't modify the argument if they don't
>> find any of the listed tokens, but I didn't want to rely on that since
>> I found no guarantees in the documentation.
>
> Maybe `strpbrk` would work? Unless I'm misunderstanding, it should
> consolidate the condition to one line without potentially modifying the
> arguments. E.g.:
>
> if (!strpbrk(argv[i], "*?[]"))
> die(_("specify directories rather than patterns. If your directory really has any of '*?[]' in it, pass --skip-checks"));
Yes, either that or strspn() are good match for the problem (I
suspect Ævar actually meant strspn() not strtok() in the first
place, though ;-).
