From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-14T16:17:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in backslash-escapes in Dir.glob

Hi,

At Wed, 14 May 2003 15:39:48 +0900,
Clifford Heath wrote:
> > The last backslash has no meanings at all.  Just a literal space.
> 
> Yes. But use two backslashes, or four, six or eight, and you get
> exactly the same result.

Escaping meta-character is also 1.7 feature, it doesn't work in
1.6.  So it was impossible to contain spaces in glob patterns
as matching characters.

> > In 1.6, spaces are separators of patterns, so you are globbing
> > "glob?test/*" and "*" here.
> 
> Are you saying that *bug* is fixed in a later version?

It was a feature modified in 1.7, spaces have no longer special
meanings now.  You have to use '\0', which is available even in
1.6, to separate patterns instead.

-- 
Nobu Nakada