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CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA - pointer passed to the fnmatch callback

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  DEFAULT  PROTOCOLS  EXAMPLE  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA − pointer passed to the fnmatch callback

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA,
void *pointer);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer that is untouched by libcurl and passed as the ptr argument to the CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION(3).

DEFAULT

NULL

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects ftp only

EXAMPLE

extern int string_match(const char *s1, const char *s2);

struct local_stuff {
void *custom;
};

static int my_fnmatch(void *clientp,
const char *pattern, const char *string)
{
struct local_stuff *my = clientp;
printf("my ptr: %p\n", my->custom);

if(string_match(pattern, string))
return CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_MATCH;
else
return CURL_FNMATCHFUNC_NOMATCH;
}

int main(void)
{
struct local_stuff local_data;
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://ftp.example.com/file*");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH, 1L);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION, my_fnmatch);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FNMATCH_DATA, &local_data);

curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.21.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non−zero means an error occurred, see libcurl−errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH(3)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se