[Boost-users] globbing with regex??

From: Rich Johnson (rjohnson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-11 13:19:31

I'm new to regex and would like to use it to match filenames, but I'd 
like to stick with a csh/bash syntax.
Is this advisable?
If so, would anyone have a set of regex traits for this syntax?
If not, could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
--rich

An sample usage is:

     namespace fs = boost::filesystem

     char * dirname;
     /*...glob_regex_traits definition */
     boost::regex  expr( "*.cpp" , /*...glob_regex_traits...*/   );

     for( fs::directory_iterator iter( fs:path( dirname ) )
                 ; iter != fs::directory_iterator()
                 ; ++iter
            )
     {
        boost::cmatch   match_data
        if( regex_match( iter->leaf().c_str(), match_data, expr ) )
        {	
                /*...do something...*/
        }
     }