[Boost-users] Re: interest in a glob_iterator? (directory_iterator with regex)

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-15 07:54:31

Jeff Flinn wrote:
> And a more descriptive, less jargon-ish name.

Why? Rich is proposing something that would iterate over the files 
returned by the unix 'glob' function.

"*.abc" is a 'glob' just as "^.*\.abc$" is the equivalent 'regular 
expression'. Both are jargon and both are fine. It's just that you're 
used to the latter...

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Angus