File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
require 5.004;
# override CORE::glob in current package
use File::DosGlob 'glob';
# override CORE::glob in ALL packages (use with extreme caution!)
use File::DosGlob 'GLOBAL_glob';
@perlfiles = glob "..\\pe?l/*.p?";
print <..\\pe?l/*.p?>;
# from the command line (overrides only in main::)
> perl -MFile::DosGlob=glob -e "print <../pe*/*p?>"
A module that implements DOS-like globbing with a few enhancements.
It is largely compatible with perlglob.exe (the M$ setargv.obj
version) in all but one respect--it understands wildcards in
directory components.
For example, <..\\l*b\\file/*glob.p?> will work as expected (in
that it will find something like '..\lib\File/DosGlob.pm' alright).
Note that all path components are case-insensitive, and that
backslashes and forward slashes are both accepted, and preserved.
You may have to double the backslashes if you are putting them in
literally, due to double-quotish parsing of the pattern by perl.
Spaces in the argument delimit distinct patterns, so
glob('*.exe *.dll') globs all filenames that end in .exe
or .dll. If you want to put in literal spaces in the glob
pattern, you can escape them with either double quotes, or backslashes.
e.g. glob('c:/"Program Files"/*/*.dll'), or
glob('c:/Program\ Files/*/*.dll'). The argument is tokenized using
Text::ParseWords::parse_line(), so see the Text::ParseWords manpage for details
of the quoting rules used.
Extending it to csh patterns is left as an exercise to the reader.
glob()
Should probably be built into the core, and needs to stop
pandering to DOS habits. Needs a dose of optimizium too.
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
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Support for globally overriding
glob() (GSAR 3-JUN-98)
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Scalar context, independent iterator context fixes (GSAR 15-SEP-97)
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A few dir-vs-file optimizations result in glob importation being
10 times faster than using perlglob.exe, and using perlglob.bat is
only twice as slow as perlglob.exe (GSAR 28-MAY-97)
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Several cleanups prompted by lack of compatible perlglob.exe
under Borland (GSAR 27-MAY-97)
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Initial version (GSAR 20-FEB-97)
perl
perlglob.bat
Text::ParseWords
