expressions.
VERSION
- Version 0.03
+ Version 0.04
SYNOPSIS
use Regexp::Wildcards qw/wc2re/;
and uses the backspace ("\") as an escape character. Wrappers are
provided to mimic the behaviour of Windows and Unix shells.
+VARIABLES
+ These variables control if the wildcards jokers and brackets must
+ capture their match. They can be globally set by writing in your program
+
+ $Regexp::Wildcards::CaptureAny = -1;
+ # From then, '*' jokers are capturing
+
+ or can be locally specified via "local"
+
+ {
+ local $Regexp::Wildcards::CaptureAny = -1;
+ # In this block, the '*' joker is capturing.
+ ...
+ }
+ # Back to the situation from before the block
+
+ This section describes also how those elements are translated by the
+ functions.
+
+ $CaptureSingle
+ When this variable is true, each occurence of the unescaped "?" joker is
+ made capturing in the resulting regexp (they are be replaced by "(.)").
+ Otherwise, they are just replaced by ".". Default is the latter.
+
+ 'a???b\\??' is translated to 'a(.)(.)(.)b\\?(.)' if $CaptureSingle is true
+ 'a...b\\?.' otherwise (default)
+
+ $CaptureAny
+ By default this variable is false, and successions of unescaped "*"
+ jokers are replaced by one single ".*". When it evalutes to true, those
+ sequences of "*" are made into one capture, which is greedy ("(.*)") for
+ "$CaptureAny > 0" and otherwise non-greedy ("(.*?)").
+
+ 'a***b\\**' is translated to 'a.*b\\*.*' if $CaptureAny is false (default)
+ 'a(.*)b\\*(.*)' if $CaptureAny > 0
+ 'a(.*?)b\\*(.*?)' otherwise
+
+ $CaptureBrackets
+ If this variable is set to true, valid brackets constructs are made into
+ "( | )" captures, and otherwise they are replaced by non-capturing
+ alternations ("(?: | ")), which is the default.
+
+ 'a{b\\},\\{c}' is translated to 'a(b\\}|\\{c)' if $CaptureBrackets is true
+ 'a(?:b\\}|\\{c)' otherwise (default)
+
FUNCTIONS
- "wc2re_unix"
+ "wc2re_jokers"
This function takes as its only argument the wildcard string to process,
- and returns the corresponding regular expression according to standard
- Unix wildcard rules. It successively escapes all unprotected regexp
- special characters that doesn't hold any meaning for wildcards, turns
- jokers into their regexp equivalents, and changes bracketed blocks into
- "(?:|)" alternations. If brackets are unbalanced, it will try to
- substitute as many of them as possible, and then escape the remaining
- "{" and "}". Commas outside of any bracket-delimited block will also be
- escaped.
+ and returns the corresponding regular expression where the jokers "?"
+ and "*" have been translated into their regexp equivalents (see
+ "VARIABLES" for more details). All other unprotected regexp
+ metacharacters are escaped.
+
+ # Everything is escaped.
+ print 'ok' if wc2re_jokers('{a{b,c}d,e}') eq '\\{a\\{b\\,c\\}d\\,e\\}';
+
+ "wc2re_unix"
+ Similar to the precedent, but this one conforms to standard Unix shell
+ wildcard rules. It successively escapes all unprotected regexp special
+ characters that doesn't hold any meaning for wildcards, turns jokers
+ into their regexp equivalents (see "wc2re_jokers"), and changes
+ bracketed blocks into (possibly capturing) alternations as described in
+ "VARIABLES". If brackets are unbalanced, it tries to substitute as many
+ of them as possible, and then escape the remaining "{" and "}". Commas
+ outside of any bracket-delimited block are also escaped.
# This is a valid bracket expression, and is completely translated.
print 'ok' if wc2re_unix('{a{b,c}d,e}') eq '(?:a(?:b|c)d|e)';
print 'ok' if wc2re_unix('{a{b,c\\}d,e}') eq '\\{a\\{b\\,c\\}d\\,e\\}';
"wc2re_win32"
- Similar to the precedent, but for Windows wildcards. Bracketed blocks
- are no longer handled (which means that brackets will be escaped), but
- you can provide a comma-separated list of items.
+ This one works just like the two before, but for Windows wildcards.
+ Bracketed blocks are no longer handled (which means that brackets are
+ escaped), but you can provide a comma-separated list of items.
# All the brackets are escaped, and commas are seen as list delimiters.
print 'ok' if wc2re_win32('{a{b,c}d,e}') eq '(?:\\{a\\{b|c\\}d|e\\})';
- "wc2re_jokers"
- This one only handles the "?" and "*" jokers. All other unquoted regexp
- metacharacters will be escaped.
-
- # Everything is escaped.
- print 'ok' if wc2re_jokers('{a{b,c}d,e}') eq '\\{a\\{b\\,c\\}d\\,e\\}';
-
"wc2re"
A generic function that wraps around all the different rules. The first
argument is the wildcard expression, and the second one is the type of
- rules to apply, currently either "unix", "win32" or "jokers". If the
- type is undefined, it defaults to "unix".
+ rules to apply which can be :
+
+ 'unix', 'win32', 'jokers'
+ For one of those raw rule names, "wc2re" simply maps to
+ "wc2re_unix", "wc2re_win32" and "wc2re_jokers" respectively.
+
+ $^O If you supply the Perl operating system name, the call is deferred
+ to "wc2re_win32" for $^O equal to 'dos', 'os2', 'MSWin32' or
+ 'cygwin', and to "wc2re_unix" in all the other cases.
+
+ If the type is undefined or not supported, it defaults to 'unix'.
+
+ # Wraps to wc2re_jokers ($re eq 'a\\{b\\,c\\}.*').
+ $re = wc2re 'a{b,c}*' => 'jokers';
+
+ # Wraps to wc2re_win32 ($re eq '(?:a\\{b|c\\}.*)')
+ # or wc2re_unix ($re eq 'a(?:b|c).*') depending on $^O.
+ $re = wc2re 'a{b,c}*' => $^O;
EXPORT
These four functions are exported only on request : "wc2re",
- "wc2re_unix", "wc2re_win32" and "wc2re_jokers".
+ "wc2re_unix", "wc2re_win32" and "wc2re_jokers". The variables are not
+ exported.
DEPENDENCIES
Text::Balanced, which is bundled with perl since version 5.7.3
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