"Angus Leeming"
Jeff Flinn wrote:
And a more descriptive, less jargon-ish name.
Why? Rich is proposing something that would iterate over the files returned by the unix 'glob' function.
Other OS's have wildcard matching, with nary a mention of "glob". No doubt in the minority, I didn't have a clue what a "glob" was. My first impression was not to bother reading as it was a joke - based on "glob"'s definition in the(Merriam-Webster) dictionary - "a small drop" or "a large rounded mass". I must be showing my age - "Rock - that's not music!, now Benny Goodman's another thing...".
"*.abc" is a 'glob' just as "^.*\.abc$" is the equivalent 'regular expression'. Both are jargon and both are fine. It's just that you're used to the latter..
Then you might want this link in the documentation: http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g.html#glob Jeff