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Return `true` if the specified `inputString` matches the pattern of this rule, and `false` otherwise&period; (For the definition of a string matching the pattern of a rule, please refer to the function&hyphen;level documentation associated with the `PatternUtil&colon;&colon;isMatch` function)&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;rule&period;h&gt;`

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bool
isMatch(char const* inputString) const;
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