Text::Glob(3pm)

NAME
Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text

SYNOPSIS
 use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );

 print "matched\n" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );

 # prints foo.bar and foo.baz
 my $regex = glob_to_regex( "foo.*" );
 for ( qw( foo.bar foo.baz foo bar ) ) {
     print "matched: $_\n" if /$regex/;
 }

DESCRIPTION
Text::Glob implements glob(3) style matching that can be used to match against text, rather than fetching names from a filesystem. If you want to do full file globbing use the File::Glob module instead.

  Routines

match_glob( $glob, @things_to_test )
    Returns the list of things which match the glob from the source list.

glob_to_regex( $glob )
    Returns a compiled regex which is the equivalent of the globbing pattern.

glob_to_regex_string( $glob )
    Returns a regex string which is the equivalent of the globbing pattern.

SYNTAX
The following metacharacters and rules are respected.

"*" - match zero or more characters
    "a*" matches "a", "aa", "aaaa" and many many more.

"?" - match exactly one character
    "a?" matches "aa", but not "a", or "aaa"

Character sets/ranges
    "example.[ch]" matches "example.c" and "example.h"

    "demo.[a-c]" matches "demo.a", "demo.b", and "demo.c"

alternation
    "example.{foo,bar,baz}" matches "example.foo", "example.bar", and "example.baz"

leading . must be explicitly matched
    "*.foo" does not match ".bar.foo". For this you must either specify the leading . in the glob pattern (".*.foo"), or set $Text::Glob::strict_leading_dot to a false value while compiling the regex.

"*" and "?" do not match the separator (i.e. do not match "/")
    "*.foo" does not match "bar/baz.foo". For this you must either explicitly match the / in the glob ("*/*.foo"), or set $Text::Glob::strict_wildcard_slash to a false value while compiling the regex, or change the separator that Text::Glob uses by setting $Text::Glob::seperator (with the typo, yes) to an alternative value while compiling the regex.

BUGS
The code uses qr// to produce compiled regexes, therefore this module requires perl version 5.005_03 or newer.

AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
File::Glob, glob(3)