Re: Behavior of glob/fnmatch with square brackets

[Andreas Schwab]

"David W. Bettis" <address@hidden> writes:

|> > |> Greetings,
|> > |> 
|> > |> Consider the following snippet of code:
|> > |> 
|> > |> 
|> > |>         int    result_code;
|> > |> 
|> > |>         /* check to see if [foo]/bar matches the pattern [foo]/* */
|> > |>         if((result_code = fnmatch("\\[foo\\]/*", "\\[foo\\]/bar", 0)) 
== 0)
|> 
|> > Code and comment disagree, so probably both are wrong.
|> 
|> Code and comment DO agree.

No, they don't.  '\[foo\]/bar' != '[foo]/bar'.

|> The intent is to match ALL files under the directory '[foo]'.

But the file is under the directory '\[foo\]'.

Andreas.

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