File::DosGlob(3)

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.

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