Re^2: glob() and dot files (updated)

Hi haukex,

Thanks for pointing out about your glob() post. I think I read it in the past. If wildcard is problematic, this gives me an idea of creating a glob-like function but with regex instead: re_glob('.*') or re_glob(qr/\.foo/). It will not skip dotfiles by default.

By the way, most of the time for practical reasons I don't bother with File::Spec at all, because why would I sacrifice myself using catfile() and no_upwards when I will not be using path separator other than "/", and parent directory other than ".." (probably for the rest of my life).

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Re^3: glob() and dot files by haukex (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2020 at 09:59 UTC
By the way, most of the time for practical reasons I don't bother with File::Spec at all, because why would I sacrifice myself using catfile() and no_upwards when I will not be using path separator other than "/", and parent directory other than ".." (probably for the rest of my life). Well, if you know your scripts are only ever going to be run on NIX, then sure. But what you're sacrificing is portability. For example, even nowadays, there are some Windows programs that can't handle `/` path separators and require `\`. Personally, although I've written code like `"$path/$file"` myself, I usually like my code to be as portable as possible, and if you're considering writing a `re_glob(qr/\.foo/)` function, you might want to release it as a module, and then portability becomes important, IMHO. * `use Path::Tiny; my @files = path($path)->children(qr/\.foo/);` But sadly, Path::Tiny "does not try to work for anything except Unix-like and Win32 platforms." Alternative: `use Path::Class; my @files = grep {$_->basename=~/\.foo/} dir(".")->children;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: glob() and dot files by soonix (Chancellor) on Apr 13, 2020 at 11:28 UTC
For example, even nowadays, there are some Windows programs that can't handle / path separators and require \. I don't remember why I wanted to call `explorer.exe` from Perl, but I did, and found out it understands pathes only with backslashes...	[reply] [d/l]