alas, no, I posted on exactly this some times ago: glob is non-recursive in D: http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
Furthermore, it would be very inefficient to filter out results given by recursive dirEntries that match a glob pattern in general case (I can give examples if needed) On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-11-12 00:45, Timothee Cour wrote: > >> Is there any plan to add recursive globs to dirEntries? >> >> use case: >> >> auto entries=dirEntry("foo/**/bar/*suffix/*.{d,di}", spanMode, >> followSymlink) >> will match for example: >> foo/a/b/bar/somethingsuffix/file.d >> >> Note, ** will match any number (>=0) of directories, whereas a single * >> is non-recursive >> >> (as found in some good shells and IIRC, later versions of python, etc). >> >> note, in this case, spanMode could only be breadth or depth, not shallow >> as the glob fully specifies depth. >> >> I have partially working code (it doesn't handle {} but does handle * >> and **), however it's not the most efficient, so was wondering. >> > > There's an overload of "dirEntries" that takes a path and a pattern. It > says the pattern is matched using std.path.globMatch. "globMatch" matches > "*" recursively. > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg >
