'''string match''' ''?'''''-nocase'''''? pattern string''

See if ''pattern'' matches ''string''; return 1 if it does, 0 if it doesn't. If '''-nocase''' is specified, then the pattern attempts to match against the string in a case insensitive manner.

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[LV] Does '''string match''' use the same code as [glob] for this?
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For the two strings to match, their contents must be identical except that the following special sequences may appear in ''pattern'':

   * '''*''' Matches any sequence of characters in ''string'', including a null string.
   * '''?''' Matches any single character in ''string''.
   * '''[['''''chars''''']]''' Matches any character in the set given by ''chars''. If a sequence of the form ''x-y'' appears in ''chars'', then any character between ''x'' and ''y'', inclusive, will match. When used with '''-nocase''', the end points of the range are converted to lower case first. Whereas {[[A-z]]} matches '_' when matching case-sensitively ('_' falls between the 'Z' and 'a'), with '''-nocase''' this is considered like {[[A-Za-z]]} (and probably what was meant in the first place).
   * '''\'''''x'' Matches the single character ''x''. This provides a way of avoiding the special interpretation of the characters '''*?[[]]\''' in ''pattern''.

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See also:

   * [string]

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