rrthomas/luaposix — pull request #17 by ittner (2011-10-27 22:01:49+00:00)
Title: Add function fnmatch()

Hello Reuben,

Despite Lua string library patterns supersede it, the standard filename matching utility may be very useful for some applications. I, for example, have a case where I match a user-supplied filename or pattern and I don't want to expose the complexities of string.match to the user.