From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T23:17:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Joker -- Wildcards for Ruby

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> Just a thought... ruby already has globbing functions in dir.c, but they
> apparently work only on dirs. Maybe they could be abstracted in to a library
> that works on strings or arrays of strings.
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Honestly: I have no idea what's going on in that file...
That's just too complicated C magic whuzzing around in there.

But a problem with that approach -- as far as I can tell -- is that
matching a glob against a string and matching it against the
file system are 2 different things. Especially since "/" or "\" have
special meaning in file systems and allow for splitting of the glob
string into small subsections, whose matching against files is much
easier.
Also dir.c has the special "**" glob, which doesn't make and sense
in string matching.

Greetz!

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