[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] Nat Goodspeed <nat@lindenlab.com> spake the secret code <CAKQaxCZXgeEhkSm4d7q1Rzbb+WJmgYoC9Ec+HcHguwH6UrBuYw@mail.gmail.com> thusly:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Andrew Marlow <marlow.agents@gmail.com> wrote:
Globbing is pattern matching using conventions that grew up with unix but have been widely copied to other operating systems and environments. The rules for the patterns are very different to regular expressions and somewhat simpler.
For what it's worth, I believe you can mechanically translate glob patterns to regular expressions and use the regex engine of your choice.
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