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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::Parse-
       Words::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@activestate.com>

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 impor-
           tation being 10 times faster than using perlglob.exe,
           and using perlglob.bat is only twice as slow as perl-
           glob.exe (GSAR 28-MAY-97)

       o   Several cleanups prompted by lack of compatible perl-
           glob.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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