From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-09-10T03:04:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

On Sep 9, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Fabian Streitel wrote:

> I'm proudly presenting:
>
> # Joker #
>
> http://karottenreibe.github.com/joker
>
> Joker is a Wildcard implementation for Ruby.
>
> ## Features ##
>
> *   Behaves much like Regexp
> *   ` * ` and ` ? ` as wildcard characters
> *   ` \ ` for escaping
> *   `\a` matches `\a`, but not `a`
> *   Wildcards must always match whole string
> *   Wildcards can be case insensitive

Can you suggest why someone would use this instead of a regular  
expression?

James Edward Gray II