From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-05-13T06:06:07+09:00
Subject: Re: shell glob match

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Try fnmatch (in 1.8)

so i should stop work on my fnmatch extension then?  ;-)

guess this is not in the shim - bummer - i'll have to wait.

-a

>
> dave[StarterKit/SCC 14:49:48] ri fnmatch
> This is a test 'ri'. Please report errors and omissions
> on http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RIOnePointEight
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------- File::fnmatch
>       File.fnmatch( aPattern, aPath, [flags] ) -> (true or false)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Returns true if aPath matches against aPattern The pattern is not a
>       regular expression; instead it follows rules similar to shell
>       filename globbing. It may contain the following metacharacters:
>       flags is a bitwise OR of the FNM_xxx parameters listed in on page
>       unknown. The same glob pattern and flags are used by Dir::glob.
>          File.fnmatch('cat',       'cat')        #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('cat',       'category')   #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c{at,ub}s', 'cats')       #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c{at,ub}s', 'cubs')       #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c{at,ub}s', 'cat')        #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c?t',    'cat')                       #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('c\?t',   'cat')                       #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c??t',   'cat')                       #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('c*',     'cats')                      #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('c/**/t', 'c/a/b/c/t')                 #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('c*t',    'cat')                       #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('c\at',   'cat')                       #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('c\at',   'cat', File::FNM_NOESCAPE)   #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('a?b',    'a/b')                       #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('a?b',    'a/b', File::FNM_PATHNAME)   #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('*',   '.profile')                       #=> false
>          File.fnmatch('*',   '.profile', File::FNM_DOTMATCH)   #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('*',   'dave/.profile')                  #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('*',   'dave/.profile', File::FNM_DOTMATCH)   #=> true
>          File.fnmatch('*',   'dave/.profile', File::FNM_PATHNAME)   #=>
> false
>          File.fnmatch('*/*', 'dave/.profile', File::FNM_PATHNAME)   #=>
> false
>          STRICT = File::FNM_PATHNAME | File::FNM_DOTMATCH
>          File.fnmatch('*/*', 'dave/.profile', STRICT)        #=> true
>
>
>
>

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