From: Glenn Jackman <glennj@...>
Date: 2009-09-10T04:35:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

At 2009-09-09 01:55PM, "Fabian Streitel" wrote:
>  [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>  
>  Hi folks,
>  I'm proudly presenting:
>  
>  # Joker #
>  
>  http://karottenreibe.github.com/joker
>  
>  Joker is a Wildcard implementation for Ruby.

Note that these are known as "glob patterns" -- you might want to update
your documentation accordingly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_pattern)

Also, your rdocs seem to be missing a few backslashes:

    * '?' matches a single character
    * '*' matches any number of characters, including 0
(1) * '*' matches a literal '*'
    * '\?' matches a literal '?'
(2) * '\' matches a literal '\'

1 should be: '\*' matches a literal '*'
2 should be: '\\' matches a literal '\'

You could generalize by saying:
    * '\x' matches the literal character 'x', even if 'x' is a wildcard
      character.

You haven't implemented bracket expressions:  '[cb]at*' should match
'catch' and 'batch' but not 'match'

Tcl has had this functionality for years, and it's very handy to be able
to do a quick glob comparison on a string when you don't need the full
power of a regular expression.
(http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/string.htm#M40)


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