Re^3: Formatting Regex for File::Find::Rule

[haukex]

'*.*' does continue and returns files as expected

'*.*' is being expanded to a regular expression by File::Find::Rule (more specifically, by glob_to_regex from Text::Glob): m{(?^:^(?=[^\.])(?:(?!\/).)*\.(?:(?!\/).)*$)}

Do you have any ideas as to why I can't get qr// to work inside name()?

->name( qr/LOG|cache|AVCHD/ ) works for me the same as my array suggestion above - like I said it won't work if you keep the slashes in.

[springgem]

Perfect! Got it to work. The issue was indeed the period in the qr, as you said. Changed it to '\..+' in the pattern, to bypass the current directory, and all is good. Thanks for putting up with me. I knew it was something stupid on my part.

[haukex]

Thanks for putting up with me. I knew it was something stupid on my part.

No worries, glad to help! The File::Find::Rule docs aren't 100% clear on that ->name matches the basename only, but I got my insights from peeking at the code - it's basically just compiling to a File::Find routine, which you can see with the private method print $rule->_compile;, and there one can see it's matching against $_, and in File::Find by default that's just the basename of the file, without the directory.