search_pattern: Define a search pattern for use with the find method on a...
In syberia/director: Load, track, and manage dependencies in a file structure.

Description Usage Arguments Details Note Examples

A search pattern is one of the following:

1	search_pattern(pattern, method)

`pattern`	character. The pattern to search for.
`method`	character. The search pattern method, one of "exact", "partial", "wildcard", or "regex".

exact: match. The strings must match exactly this value.
partial: match. The strings which contain this string as a substring will be matched.
wildcard: match. Fuzzy matching like in the ctrl+p plugin for vim. If the pattern is "abc", it will be translated to the regular expression ".*a.*b.*c.*", that is, any characters followed by an 'a' followed by any characters followed by a 'b' followed by any characters followed by a 'c' followed by any characters (e.g., "fabulous cake"). Note that wildcard match is case insensitive.
regex: match. Apply a regular expression filter to the set of strings.

Patterns can be combined using the | and & operators.

## Not run: 
  d$find(search_pattern("this/file", "exact"))
  # If d is a director object, the above will find exactly the resource
  # "this/file".

  d$find(search_pattern("this", "partial"))
  # The above will find any resource containing "this" as a substring.

  d$find(search_pattern("this", "wildcard"))
  # The above will find any resource containing the consecutive letters
  # "this" separated by arbitrary strings.

  d$find(search_pattern("foobar", "partial") | search_pattern("root", "exact"))
  # The above will find any resource with the substring "foobar" or having
  # exactly the name "root".

## End(Not run)