[boost] Re: Any interest in a boost::glob() function?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-27 11:50:06

"Angus Leeming" <angus.leeming_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:cj96ub$l89$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Dear all,
>
> I've taken Richard Johnson's glob_iterator that he posted to the list
> back in January and re-written it completely, using Boost.Spirit to
> transform the input 'glob' into an equivalent regex. The result is a
> 'boost::glob' function that I believe is fully POSIX-conformant.
>
> Example usage:
>
>     fs::path const starting_directory(".");
>     std::list<fs::path> const matches =
>         boost::glob("../te?t/foo*bar", starting_directory);

This look way too inefficient. Why would you want to copy list of complex
objects? Iterator interface seems much better fit here.

Gennadiy.