1Text::Glob(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::Glob(3)
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6 Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text
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9 use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );
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11 print "matched\n" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );
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20 Text::Glob implements glob(3) style matching that can be used to match
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24 Routines
25 match_glob( $glob, @things_to_test )
26 Returns the list of things which match the glob from the source
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29 glob_to_regex( $glob )
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33 glob_to_regex_string( $glob )
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38 The following metacharacters and rules are respected.
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40 "*" - match zero or more characters
41 "a*" matches "a", "aa", "aaaa" and many many more.
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43 "?" - match exactly one character
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46 Character sets/ranges
47 "example.[ch]" matches "example.c" and "example.h"
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49 "demo.[a-c]" matches "demo.a", "demo.b", and "demo.c"
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55 leading . must be explicitly matched
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61 "*" and "?" do not match the seperator (i.e. do not match "/")
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70 The code uses qr// to produce compiled regexes, therefore this module
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74 Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>
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77 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Richard Clamp. All Rights
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80 This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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84 File::Glob, glob(3)
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