Exclude page from sidebar using wildcard title?

I had a similar need, I created a page with the slug ‘home’ and created a home.php that displays it… then, to remove that page from the list of pages, I modified sidebar.php in the appropriate themes/ directory to have:


<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=home&title_li='); ?>
</ul>


and changed function &get_pages in wp-includes/template-functions-post.php as follows:


if ( !empty($r['exclude']) ) {
$expages = preg_split('/[s,]+/',$r['exclude']);
if ( count($expages) ) {
// wl modification 20061118 -- permit exclusion by page *name* as well as ID
// original code:
//foreach ( $expages as $expage ) {
// $exclusions .= ' AND ID <> ' . intval($expage) . ' ';
//}
// new code:
foreach ( $expages as $expage ) {
if (ereg('^d+$', $expage)) {
$exclusions .= ' AND ID <> ' . intval($expage) . ' ';
} else {
$exclusions .= ' AND post_name <> "' . $expage . '" ';
}
}
// end modification
}
}