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

From: David Ohlemacher (ohlemacher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-15 13:24:23

Seems that "glob" is pretty common, if not standard, to me.  

Examples:
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Python - http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-glob.html
Perl - Camel book
Ruby - http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_dir.html#Dir.glob
PHP - http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php
M$'s Site Server - 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/siteserv/html/agentref_16.asp
M$'s SMTP Server - 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/smtpevt/html/_smtpevt_source_properties.asp
M$'s UNIX Application Migration Guide - 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/ucmglp.asp

Standard C++ cannot do globbing, without help, so of course it doesn't 
define it.

-d

Jim.Hyslop wrote:

>Angus Leeming [mailto:angus.leeming_at_[hidden]] wrote:
>  
>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>As much as you might hate to admit it, you must recognize that the world
>does not revolve around UNIX (and before anyone claims otherwise, nor does
>the world revolve around Windows).
>
>To my knowledge, "glob" is not a standard computer term, nor a standard C++
>term, it is a standard UNIX term. Now, I could be wrong, but my
>understanding of the ISO standardization process is make everything
>platform-independent (and keep in mind that one of the original goals of
>Boost was to be included in the Standard). The *concept* of the "glob" is
>pretty much platform independent, but the term is not, so it should have (to
>paraphrase Jeff) a more descriptive, less platform-specific name.
>
>  
>

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