Martin wrote:
How do I use it in windows where case-sensitivity is a file attribute (FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS).
boost::glob("*.[tT][xX][tT]", ...)
might return more files than
FindFirstFile("*.txt")/FindNextFile()
e.g. on a mounted case-sensitive filesystem
Good morning, Martin. Having slept on it, I think that my original answer of "ask Beman" is wrong. I think that handling this requirement is easy. In boost/details/glob.hpp you'll find template <typename TraitsT = glob_traits> class glob_predicate { ... public: /** @returns true if @c p.leaf() matches the glob expression. */ bool operator()(filesystem::path const & p) const { if (contains_wildcards_) { boost::cmatch match_; return regex_match(p.leaf().c_str(), match_, regex_); } return p.leaf() == pattern_; } }; I have two suggestions: 1. Add the ability to ignore case for all users: #include <boost/algorithm/case_conv.hpp> enum glob_flags { ... glob_case_insensitive = (1 << 5) }; template <typename TraitsT = glob_traits> class glob_predicate { bool case_insensitive_; public: glob_predicate(std::string const & pattern, glob_flags flags) : regex_(reg_expression()) , case_insensitive(flags & glob_case_insensitive) { ... } bool operator()(filesystem::path const & p) const { std::string const leaf = case_insensitive_ ? to_lower_copy(p.leaf()) : p.leaf(); if (contains_wildcards_) { boost::cmatch match_; return regex_match(leaf.c_str(), match_, regex_); } return leaf == pattern_; } }; 2. Interrogate the value of FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS on Windows boxes. I'm no Windows programmer, but a quick google suggests that this might do the trick. Feel free to improve: bool operator()(filesystem::path const & p) const { bool case_insensitive = case_insensitive_; #ifdef BOOST_WINDOWS if (!case_insensitive) { WIN32_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DATA data; if (GetFileAttributesEx(p.native_file_string(), 0, data)) { case_insensitive = !(data.fileAttributes & FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS); } } #endif ... } I have one further question for you, however. If the 'top level' pattern doesn not contain any wild cards (foo.cpp in ../*/foo.cpp), then I use fs::path const candidate = working_dir /= predicate.file(); if (exists(candidate) matches.push_back(candidate); So, will 'exists' do the right thing here? Any other comments? Regards, Angus