From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2003-05-09T13:56:45+09:00
Subject: Thanks, and problems with Dir.glob

ahoward wrote:
> 'foo*bar?baz'.scan /[*?]|[^*?]+/

Magic, thanks. Must read that book again :-).

New problem: Dir.glob.  I'm finding the following misbehaviour:

1) If the pattern contains a space in a directory name, a matching
    directory doesn't.

2) Placing '?' in a pattern can result in no matches. I did this
    as a work-around to the previous problem, where the filenames
    contain multiple spaces, the pattern multiple ?s.

3) Using the space character in the filename part of a pattern can
    cause *two* complete sets of matches, i.e. the filename array
    has a complete second copy appended. I worked around it with uniq!

Are these known problems with 1.6.8 on Linux?

What's wierd is that Perl's glob on Windows (both the built-in one
and the File::DosGlob module) are broken also, each in different
ways. Coincidence? Why is this stuff hard to get right?

Clifford.