On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 01:24, rbb@rkbloom.net wrote:
> Quoting Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 19:13, rbb@rkbloom.net wrote:
> > > I need a way to expand a wildcard string within a program.  Normally I
> > would use
> > > glob for this, but since I am mainly working on Windows, that won't work. 
> > So, I
> > > would like to suggest apr_file_glob as a adjunct to apr_fnmatch.  Assuming
> > there
> > > are no arguments against this, I will work up a patch over the next few
> > days for
> > > Windows and possibly Unix.
> > 
> > You may want to look at the implementation in Subversion.  Usually there
> > is no problem getting common code integrated back into APR.
> 
> I am looking in subversion right now, and the only function that I can see
> quickly is svn_cstring_match_glob_list, which is close, but isn't really what I
> want.  This function takes a glob string a list of strings to match against. 
> What I want is a function that takes a glob string and a directory name, and
> returns a list of all of the files in that directory that match the glob string.
> 
> Am I missing the subversion function you are talking about?  Or do I need to
> write what I want.  I agree that what you have pointed me at is a good first
> step, but it is kind of backwards, because it is forcing me to find all of the
> files in the directory and then weed out the ones I don't want.

Agreed.  It would have been nice to have two functions there:
match_glob and match_glob_list.  The latter could call on the first.
Seems like a refactoring job ;).


Sander