From: Piergiuliano Bossi <p_bossi_AGAINST_SPAM@...>
Date: 2005-05-10T18:24:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.glob and File.fnmatch

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sun, 8 May 2005 23:46:18 +0900,
> Thomas Leitner wrote in [ruby-talk:141672]:
> 
>>I always thought that the arguments to Dir.glob(...) and
>>File.fnmatch(...) are the same. However, with the first I can use
>>braces, with File.fnmatch not!
> 
> 
> Brace Expansion is different from Pathname Expansion.
> 

Yes, PickaxeII contains a better explanation than ri and effectively 
differentiate the semantics between the two: "Because fnmatch is 
implemented by the underlying operating system, it may have different 
semantics to Dir.glob." ==> ie: braces are not used to delimit patterns 
to match.

IMHO ri description needs to be slightly enhanced.

HTH
Giuliano

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