NAME

Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );

print "matched\n" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );

# prints foo.bar and foo.baz
my $regex = glob_to_regex( "foo.*" );
for ( qw( foo.bar foo.baz foo bar ) ) {
    print "matched: $_\n" if /$regex/;
}

DESCRIPTION

Text::Glob implements glob(3) style matching that can be used to match against text, rather than fetching names from a filesystem. If you want to do full file globbing use the File::Glob module instead.

Routines

match_glob( $glob, @things_to_test )

Returns the list of things which match the glob from the source list.

glob_to_regex( $glob )

Returns a compiled regex which is the equiavlent of the globbing pattern.

BUGS

The code uses qr// to produce compiled regexes, therefore this module requires perl version 5.005_03 or newer.

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

File::Glob, glob(3)