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NAME
       File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some

SYNOPSIS
           require 5.004;

           # override CORE::glob in current package
           use File::DosGlob 'glob';

           # override CORE::glob in ALL packages (use with extreme caution!)
           use File::DosGlob 'GLOBAL_glob';

           @perlfiles = glob  "..\\pe?l/*.p?";
           print <..\\pe?l/*.p?>;

           # from the command line (overrides only in main::)
           > perl -MFile::DosGlob=glob -e "print <../pe*/*p?>"


DESCRIPTION
       A module that implements DOS-like globbing with a few
       enhancements.  It is largely compatible with perlglob.exe
       (the M$ setargv.obj version) in all but one respect--it
       understands wildcards in directory components.

       For example, <..\\l*b\\file/*glob.p?> will work as
       expected (in that it will find something like
       '..\lib\File/DosGlob.pm' alright).  Note that all path
       components are case-insensitive, and that backslashes and
       forward slashes are both accepted, and preserved.  You may
       have to double the backslashes if you are putting them in
       literally, due to double-quotish parsing of the pattern by
       perl.

       Spaces in the argument delimit distinct patterns, so
       glob('*.exe *.dll') globs all filenames that end in .exe
       or .dll.  If you want to put in literal spaces in the glob
       pattern, you can escape them with either double quotes, or
       backslashes.  e.g. glob('c:/"Program Files"/*/*.dll'), or
       glob('c:/Program\ Files/*/*.dll').  The argument is
       tokenized using Text::ParseWords::parse_line(), so see the
       Text::ParseWords manpage for details of the quoting rules
       used.

       Extending it to csh patterns is left as an exercise to the
       reader.

EXPORTS (by request only)
       glob()

BUGS
       Should probably be built into the core, and needs to stop
       pandering to DOS habits.  Needs a dose of optimizium too.




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File::DosGlob(3p)Perl Programmers Reference GuidFile::DosGlob(3p)


AUTHOR
       Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@umich.edu>

HISTORY
       o   Support for globally overriding glob() (GSAR 3-JUN-98)

       o   Scalar context, independent iterator context fixes
           (GSAR 15-SEP-97)

       o   A few dir-vs-file optimizations result in glob
           importation being 10 times faster than using
           perlglob.exe, and using perlglob.bat is only twice as
           slow as perlglob.exe (GSAR 28-MAY-97)

       o   Several cleanups prompted by lack of compatible
           perlglob.exe under Borland (GSAR 27-MAY-97)

       o   Initial version (GSAR 20-FEB-97)

SEE ALSO
       perl

       perlglob.bat

       Text::ParseWords
































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