NAME

       File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some

SYNOPSIS

           require 5.004;

           # override CORE::glob in current package
           use File::DosGlob 'glob';

           # override CORE::glob in ALL packages (use with extreme caution!)
           use File::DosGlob 'GLOBAL_glob';

           @perlfiles = glob  "..\\pe?l/*.p?";
           print <..\\pe?l/*.p?>;

           # from the command line (overrides only in main::)
           > perl -MFile::DosGlob=glob -e "print <../pe*/*p?>"

DESCRIPTION

       A module that implements DOS-like globbing with a few enhancements.  It is largely compatible with
       perlglob.exe (the M$ setargv.obj version) in all but one respect--it understands wildcards in directory
       components.

       For example, "<..\\l*b\\file/*glob.p?>" will work as expected (in that it will find something like
       '..\lib\File/DosGlob.pm' alright).  Note that all path components are case-insensitive, and that
       backslashes and forward slashes are both accepted, and preserved.  You may have to double the backslashes
       if you are putting them in literally, due to double-quotish parsing of the pattern by perl.

       Spaces in the argument delimit distinct patterns, so "glob('*.exe *.dll')" globs all filenames that end
       in ".exe" or ".dll".  If you want to put in literal spaces in the glob pattern, you can escape them with
       either double quotes, or backslashes.  e.g. "glob('c:/"Program Files"/*/*.dll')", or "glob('c:/Program\
       Files/*/*.dll')".  The argument is tokenized using Text::ParseWords::parse_line(), so see
       Text::ParseWords for details of the quoting rules used.

       Extending it to csh patterns is left as an exercise to the reader.

EXPORTS (by request only)

       glob()

BUGS

       Should probably be built into the core, and needs to stop pandering to DOS habits.  Needs a dose of
       optimization too.

AUTHOR

       Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>

HISTORY

       •   Support for globally overriding glob() (GSAR 3-JUN-98)

       •   Scalar context, independent iterator context fixes (GSAR 15-SEP-97)

       •   A  few  dir-vs-file  optimizations  result  in  glob  importation  being  10  times faster than using
           perlglob.exe, and using perlglob.bat is only twice as slow as perlglob.exe (GSAR 28-MAY-97)

       •   Several cleanups prompted by lack of compatible perlglob.exe under Borland (GSAR 27-MAY-97)

       •   Initial version (GSAR 20-FEB-97)

SEE ALSO

       perl

       perlglob.bat

       Text::ParseWords

perl v5.38.2                                       2025-07-25                               File::DosGlob(3perl)