Simple wildcard matching

One of my customers requested a search form with simple wildcard matching yesterday (just the simple '*' and '?' style Windows users are used to) and i ended up using str_replace() and friends to convert these into regular expressions while preventing things like '.' from being interpreted. First i wondered why there is no [p|e]reg function for encoding all the special chars available in regular expressions (which i still do) but then i found that what i was really looking for was a simple PHP wrapper for C's fnmatch() function. Now the simple question is: how should i call it and where should it live? ( ) as fnmatch() in ext/standard, as it is a file related function after all ( ) as wildcard_match() in ext/standard ( ) as wildcard_match() in a extension of its own ( ) _____________________________________________ comments, suggestions, ideas? -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77