fnmatch - single pattern to allow only text which have dots and digits

Question

In GitHub I want to protect branches which have digits and dots. But if a branch has any letters, than it should not be protected

need fnmatch pattern so text with digits separated with dots will be matched

matched examples:

11.22
20.2
1.2.2.3.4

not matched examples:

abc_2.2

2.2_sss

1.9_AAA-1233

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '23 at 11:59

The best way to do this, that is if you must use fnmatch, is to repeat the pattern. Code is follows

for i in range(1, 256): # github max branch name size 255
    fnmatch_pattern = '[0123456789.]'*i
    # whatever fnmatch function you want
    # append the result however you like. Note there will be duplicates

This is by far the best solution I can think of. Sorry if it's still so inconvenient.

Kumar Rishabh · Answer 2 · 2023-05-18T10:29:27.983

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I think this should work. Try this :- '^[0-9.]+$' --> Regex

?[0-9.?]+ --> fnmatch

edited May 18 '23 at 10:29

answered May 16 '23 at 20:27

Kumar Rishabh

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your asnwer provides regex pattern, but fnmatch pattern is required. – VextoR May 17 '23 at 20:33
added fnmatch . – Kumar Rishabh May 18 '23 at 12:44
thank you, unfortunately provided fnmath pattern does not match values from my matched example – VextoR May 18 '23 at 13:02

fnmatch - single pattern to allow only text which have dots and digits

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