In Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast Too Russ Cox benchmarked several glob implementations by matching the string a100 against the pattern (a*)nb. (Here exponentiation refers to string repetition, as in 'a' x 100 matched against ('a*' x $n)...| mauke
Let's say you have a glob pattern with shell-style wildcards from a config file or user input, where ? matches any character and * matches any string (0 or more characters). You want to convert it to a regex, maybe...| mauke