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/;
}

INSTALLATION

perl Build.PL
perl Build test

and if all goes well

perl Build install

HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.06 Monday 1st September, 2003

	- port to Module::Build
        - Nested alternations fix from Mike Benson
	

0.05 15th August, 2002

- !match_glob("*.foo", "foo/.foo"); 
- test suite overhaul
- backslash expansion fixed
- /[+^$|]/ made less 'special'
- handle embedded newlines in glob patterns
- add tests for 'foo[abc]'
- Many thanks go to Nick Cleaton for finding these

0.04 14th August, 2002

	- $Text::Glob::{strict_leading_dot,strict_wildcard_slash} from
	  bug report from Nick Cleaton
        - (quite poor) documentation of supported globbing constructs

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)