From: Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-10-22T13:47:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40274] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5422] File.fnmatch != Dir.glob # {no,sets}


Issue #5422 has been updated by Thomas Sawyer.


> "The former doesn't sound appropriate, because "glob" does not imply brace expansion originally."

I'm only going by the functionality of `Dir.<b>glob</b>`. But, whatever name seems best.

> "Brace expansion is a string to array conversion operation, and not used only for file names in shell scripts."

Okay, I mistook your example's use of `*` and similarity of name to `File.expand_path` to think that it was. `File.expand_brace` is fine if you think it would be useful in and of itself. But the real need is for a Dir.glob compatible match method.

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Feature #5422: File.fnmatch != Dir.glob # {no,sets}
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5422

Author: Suraj Kurapati
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 2.0
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]


Hello,

The File.fnmatch methods do not support Dir.glob's set notation:

>> Dir.glob '{.g,t}*'
=> [".gem", "test"]
>> File.fnmatch? '{.g,t}*', 'test'
=> false
>> File.fnmatch? '{.g,t}*', '.gem'
=> false

Please add set notation to fnmatch() and make it equal to glob().

Thanks for your consideration.


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