RE: [Boost-users] Re: interest in a glob_iterator? (directory_ite rator with regex)
Angus Leeming [mailto:angus.leeming@btopenworld.com] wrote: the world revolve around Windows). To my knowledge, "glob" is not a standard computer term, nor a standard C++ term, it is a standard UNIX term. Now, I could be wrong, but my understanding of the ISO standardization process is make everything platform-independent (and keep in mind that one of the original goals of Boost was to be included in the Standard). The *concept* of the "glob" is pretty much platform independent, but the term is not, so it should have (to paraphrase Jeff) a more descriptive, less platform-specific name. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com/) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)
Seems that "glob" is pretty common, if not standard, to me. Examples: ======== Python - http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-glob.html Perl - Camel book Ruby - http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_dir.html#Dir.glob PHP - http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php M$'s Site Server - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/siteserv/ht... M$'s SMTP Server - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/smtpevt/htm... M$'s UNIX Application Migration Guide - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html... Standard C++ cannot do globbing, without help, so of course it doesn't define it. -d Jim.Hyslop wrote:
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On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 09:40 AM, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
Oh, I'll confess that I thought "glob()" was already part of the POSIX standard; but I'll admit I didn't look to be sure. Anyway, the point is taken. To rephrase Russell's comment: " I don't care what it's called as long as I have its function!" Would a better name be "wildcard_iterator"? filtered_directory_iterator? perhaps "filename_iterator"? Can anyone offer other suggestions? And while we're on the subject of platform/environment independence: What should be the set of meta-characters? The initial implementation supports csh/bash style "*", "?", "[ab-z]", "[^ab-z]", and "{a,b}". Should the set be expanded? restricted? --rich
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