1File::Zglob(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       File::Zglob(3)
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NAME

6       File::Zglob - Extended globs.
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SYNOPSIS

9           use File::Zglob;
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11           my @files = zglob('**/*.{pm,pl}');
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DESCRIPTION

14       WARNINGS: THIS IS ALPHA VERSION. API MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
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16       Provides a traditional Unix glob(3) functionality; returns a list of
17       pathnames that matches the given pattern.
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19       File::Zglob provides extended glob. It supports "**/*.pm" form.
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FUNCTIONS

22       zglob($pattern) # => list of matched files
23               my @files = zglob('**/*.[ch]');
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25           Unlike shell's glob, if there's no matching pathnames, () is
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Special chars

29       A glob pattern also consists of components and separator characters. In
30       a component, following characters/syntax have special meanings.
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32       "*" When it appears at the beginning of a component, it matches zero or
33           more characters except a period (.). And it won't match if the
34           component of the input string begins with a period.
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36           Otherwise, it matches zero or more sequence of any characters.
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38       "**"
39           If a component is just **, it matches zero or more number of
40           components that match *. For example, src/**/*.h matches all of the
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43               src/*.h
44               src/*/*.h
45               src/*/*/*.h
46               src/*/*/*/*.h
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49       "?" When it appears at the beginning of a component, it matches a
50           character except a period (.). Otherwise, it matches any single
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53       "[chars]"
54           Specifies a character set. Matches any one of the set. The syntax
55           of chars is the same as perl's character set syntax.
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57       "{pm,pl}"
58           There is alternation.
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60           "example.{foo,bar,baz}" matches "example.foo", "example.bar", and
61           "example.baz"
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zglob and deep recursion

64       "**/*" form makes deep recursion by soft link. zglob throw exception if
65       it's deep recursion.
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PORTABILITY

68       Win32
69           Zglob supports Win32. zglob() only uses '/' as a path separator.
70           Since zglob() accepts non-utf8 strings. CP932 contains '\'
71           character as a second byte of multibyte chars.
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LIMITATIONS

74       File order is not compatible with shells.
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AUTHOR

77       Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom AAJKLFJEF GMAIL COM>
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THANKS TO

80       Most code was translated from gauche's fileutil.scm.
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82       glob_to_regex function is taken from Text::Glob.
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SEE ALSO

85       File::DosGlob, Text::Glob, gauche's fileutil.scm
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LICENSE

88       Copyright (C) Tokuhiro Matsuno
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90       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
91       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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95perl v5.34.0                      2021-07-22                    File::Zglob(3)
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