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Re: libzglob?

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From: Andrew Main <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: libzglob?
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:09:37 +0100 (BST)
Cc: jhi@xxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199708250530.BAA04562@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Aug 25, 97 01:30:15 am

Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
>The scanner in zsh glob can be used for perl, however the pattern
>matching part has some problems.  One for example is that (ab#)# does not
>match ab.

Why?

>           For perl, a zsh glob -> regexp translator would be much more
>roboust and relyable.

But then in order to do actual file globbing, a second regexp execution
engine would be required.  This is not necessarily a bad approach --
it has the potential to allow globbing based on full Perl regexps --
but it might be better to stick with zsh's special purpose code.

-zefram

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