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File::DosGlob

See the current Perl documentation for File::DosGlob.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:

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::DosGl
    

    


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 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, or
glob. The argument is tokenized using
Text::ParseWords::parse_line(), so see ParseWords for details of the quoting rules used.


Extending it to csh patterns is left as an exercise to the reader.



EXPORTS (by request only)


glob()



BUGS

Should probably be built into the core, and needs to stop pandering to 
DOS habits. Needs a dose of optimizium too.



AUTHOR

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@umich.edu>



HISTORY



Support for globally overriding 
glob() 
(GSAR 
3-JUN-98)



Scalar context, independent iterator context fixes 
(GSAR 
15-SEP-97)




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)



Several cleanups prompted by lack of compatible perlglob.exe under Borland 
(GSAR 
27-MAY-97)



Initial version 
(GSAR 
20-FEB-97)




SEE ALSO

perl


perlglob.bat


Text::ParseWords