Rich Johnson wrote:
On another topic....
I seem to recall a boost::filesystem 'is_equivalent_name()' or 'name_equals()' convenience function mentioned sometime over the last week or so. There's currently a fair bit of debate over character codings, etc.; this function would handle that.
Thanks for the heads up. I skipped many of the 1200+ postings to the Boost Devel list since I read it last... I think that I understand what you're talking about. The fact that Win32 regards 'FileName' and 'filename' as equivalent file names unless the file has the FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS attribute set, right?
AFAIK, these issues have (to date) been outside the scope of the globber.
As they get settled out, this service should be utilized in the glob predicate. My main concern would relate to performance--especially regarding the frequency of constructing parsers.
You mean the transformation of the globbing pattern '*/*.cpp' into the equivalent regex? That's done only once, right at the very start of the process. My tests indicate that my glob function has similar performance to the system glob on a 'nix box, so long as an appropriate container is used to store the results. I'll try and update asap the posted code to reflect my experiments. Angus