[Help-smalltalk] allFilesMatching:do:

[Sean Allen]

Apparently I'm now abusing a new method. I'm investigating the best  
way to handle a couple tasks...

I have this:

/Users/Spooneybarger/test/
/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/
/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/ed.txt
/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt/
/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt/file


As I test, I wanted to find anything named ed.txt...

/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/ed.txt
/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt/

so i did:

st> file allFilesMatching: '*ed.txt' do: [ :each | each name printNl ]
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt'
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/ed.txt'

which i believe is the only way to get both as its trying to match  
against

x
x/ed.txt
ed.txt
ed.ext/file

problem

if i add

/Users/Spooneybarger/test/fred.txt

st> file allFilesMatching: '*ed.txt' do: [ :each | each name printNl ]
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt'
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/fred.txt'
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/ed.txt'

right so there is no way to use allFilesMatching to get every file  
named ed.txt like this.
not real intuitive...

st> file allFilesMatching: '*ed.txt' do: [ :each | each stripPath =  
'ed.txt' ifTrue: [ each name printNl ] ]
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/ed.txt'
'/Users/Spooneybarger/test/x/ed.txt'

it would seem that the recursive nature of allFilesMatching pretty  
much demands that pattern is a full regular expression,
otherwise, I can't see a real use case for allFilesMatching:do: that  
isnt quite limited.

With a regex i could still do what it does right now

.*ed.txt

or what i thought it would do

.*/?ed.txt