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Function std.path.globMatch

Matches a pattern against a path.

bool globMatch(CaseSensitive cs = CaseSensitive.osDefault, C, Range) (
  Range path,
  const(C)[] pattern
) pure nothrow @safe
if (isForwardRange!Range && !isInfinite!Range && isSomeChar!(ElementEncodingType!Range) && !isConvertibleToString!Range && isSomeChar!C && is(immutable(C) == immutable(ElementEncodingType!Range)));

Some characters of pattern have a special meaning (they are meta-characters) and can't be escaped. These are:

* Matches 0 or more instances of any character.
? Matches exactly one instance of any character.
[chars] Matches one instance of any character that appears between the brackets.
[!chars] Matches one instance of any character that does not appear between the brackets after the exclamation mark.
{string1,string2,…} Matches either of the specified strings.

Individual characters are compared using filenameCharCmp!cs, where cs is an optional template parameter determining whether the comparison is case sensitive or not. See the filenameCharCmp documentation for details.

Note that directory separators and dots don't stop a meta-character from matching further portions of the path.

Parameters

NameDescription
cs Whether the matching should be case-sensitive
path The path to be matched against
pattern The glob pattern

Returns

true if pattern matches path, false otherwise.

See also

Wikipedia: glob (programming)

Example

assert(globMatch("foo.bar", "*"));
assert(globMatch("foo.bar", "*.*"));
assert(globMatch(`foo/foo\bar`, "f*b*r"));
assert(globMatch("foo.bar", "f???bar"));
assert(globMatch("foo.bar", "[fg]???bar"));
assert(globMatch("foo.bar", "[!gh]*bar"));
assert(globMatch("bar.fooz", "bar.{foo,bif}z"));
assert(globMatch("bar.bifz", "bar.{foo,bif}z"));

version (Windows)
{
    // Same as calling globMatch!(CaseSensitive.no)(path, pattern)
    assert(globMatch("foo", "Foo"));
    assert(globMatch("Goo.bar", "[fg]???bar"));
}
version (linux)
{
    // Same as calling globMatch!(CaseSensitive.yes)(path, pattern)
    assert(!globMatch("foo", "Foo"));
    assert(!globMatch("Goo.bar", "[fg]???bar"));
}

Authors

Lars Tandle Kyllingstad, Walter Bright, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz, Thomas Kühne, Andrei Alexandrescu

License

Boost License 1.0