Hello everybody,

Is there a globbing facility in boost? If not, are there any plans to add one?

Please note that globbing is related to matching strings that correspond to file system objects functionality is neither regular expressions, nor is it file system related. Therefore it does not belong in regexp, expressive or bfs. IMO.

Globbing is pattern matching using conventions that grew up with unix but have been widely copied to other operating systems and environments. The rules for the patterns are very different to regular expressions and somewhat simpler.

I have written a directory iterator for my own use and I currently employ boost regexp for file name matching on unix. But i would very much prefer that it use globbing. The code is portable, via ifdefs, and in the windows branch I am able to use true globbing due to a facility in the win32 API.