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Manual Reference Pages  - Text::Glob (3)

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Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text

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 use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );

 print "matched\n" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );

 # prints foo.bar and foo.baz
 my $regex = glob_to_regex( "foo.*" );
 for ( qw( foo.bar foo.baz foo bar ) ) {
     print "matched: $_\n" if /$regex/;
 }

Text::Glob implements glob(3) style matching that can be used to match against text, rather than fetching names from a filesystem. If you want to do full file globbing use the File::Glob module instead.

match_glob( $glob, @things_to_test )	Returns the list of things which match the glob from the source list.
glob_to_regex( $glob )	Returns a compiled regex which is the equiavlent of the globbing pattern.
glob_to_regex_string( $glob )	Returns a regex string which is the equiavlent of the globbing pattern.

The following metacharacters and rules are respected.

* - match zero or more characters	a* matches a, aa, aaaa and many many more.
? - match exactly one character	a? matches aa, but not a, or aa
Character sets/ranges	example.[ch] matches example.c and example.h demo.[a-c] matches demo.a, demo.b, and demo.c
alternation	example.{foo,bar,baz} matches example.foo, example.bar, and example.baz
leading . must be explictly matched	*.foo does not match .bar.foo. For this you must either specify the leading . in the glob pattern (.*.foo), or set $Text::Glob::strict_leading_dot to a false value while compiling the regex.
* and ? do not match /	*.foo does not match bar/baz.foo. For this you must either explicitly match the / in the glob (*/*.foo), or set $Text::Glob::strict_wildcard_slash to a false value with compiling the regex.

The code uses qr// to produce compiled regexes, therefore this module requires perl version 5.005_03 or newer.

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

File::Glob, glob(3)

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