wildcard_pattern.lua

Lua library for using shell-like wildcards as string patterns with support for importing gitignore-like file content.

Installation

Copy wildcard_pattern.lua to your LUA_PATH or install with LuaRocks:

$ luarocks install wildcard_pattern

Usage

local wildcard_pattern = require 'wildcard_pattern'

-- Create simple lua string patterns from wildcard ones
local patt = wildcard_pattern.from_wildcard("*.lua")
assert(string.match("hello_world.lua", patt))

-- Or import a gitignore-like content from file
local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.open(".gitignore"))
-- local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.open(".gitignore"):read('*a'))  -- or from text
-- local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.lines(".gitignore"))  -- or from an iterator function
assert(not wildcard_pattern.any_match(ignore_patterns, "hello_world.lua"))  -- assuming your .gitignore have no rules for ignoring hello_world.lua
-- `any_match` is also a method and __call metamethod for ignore files
assert(not ignore_patterns:any_match("hello_world.lua"))
assert(not ignore_patterns("hello_world.lua"))

-- You can extend your aggregate wildcard with `insert`, `extend` or `extend_from` methods
ignore_patterns:insert("hello_world.lua")
ignore_patterns:extend("hello_world.lua", "hello_world[0-9].lua")
ignore_patterns:extend_from([[
# `extend_from` uses gitignore-like file content, just like `wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from`
world_hello?.lua
**.ignore
]])

What is supported

• A single asterisk * matches zero or more characters that are not directory separators /
• Two consecutive asterisks ** match zero or more characters
• A question mark ? match any character that is not a directory separator /
• Brackets [...] denote character sets and ranges, like [abcd] and [a-d]
• Brackets may be negated with an exclamation mark [!...]
• Backslash \ escapes are maintained

What is not supported

• Prefix exclamation mark ! for negating the pattern in ignore files

Running tests

Run tests using busted

$ busted