1Star includes a pattern matcher based on the algorithm 2presented by Martin Richards in: 3 4"A Compact Function for Regular Expression Pattern Matching", 5Software-Practice and Experience, Vol. 9, 527-534 (1979) 6 7Several changes have been made to the original source which has been 8written in BCPL: 9 10'/' is replaced by '!' (to allow UNIX filenames) 11'(',')' are replaced by '{', '}' 12'\'' is replaced by '\\' (UNIX compatible quote) 13 14Character classes have been added to allow "[<character list>]" 15to be used. 16Start of line '^' and end of line '$' have been added. 17 18A description is available in the man page for the match program. 19It may be found in man/man1/match.1 20