GlobEx

An implementation of glob.

GlobEx offers among others the functions GlobEx.ls/1 and GlobEx.match?/2. Furthermore, the sigil ~g|| is provided.

The function GlobEx.ls/1 returns the same result as Path.wildcard/2. GlobEx.match?/2 can be used to check whether a path is matching a given glob.

Example

iex(1)> import GlobEx.Sigils
GlobEx.Sigils
iex(2)> GlobEx.match?(~g|{lib,test}/**/*.{ex,exs}|, "test/test_helper.exs")
true
iex(3)> GlobEx.match?(~g|{lib,test}/**/*.{ex,exs}|, "test/unknown.exs")
true
iex(4)> GlobEx.match?(~g|{lib,test}/**/*.{ex,exs}|, "test/unknown.foo")
false
iex(5)> GlobEx.ls(~g|{lib,test}/**/*.{ex,exs}|)
["lib/glob_ex.ex", "lib/glob_ex/compiler.ex", "lib/glob_ex/compiler_error.ex",
 "lib/glob_ex/sigils.ex", "test/glob_ex/compiler_test.exs",
 "test/glob_ex_test.exs", "test/test_helper.exs"]
iex(6)> GlobEx.ls(~g|*.exs|) # ignores files with a starting dot
["mix.exs"]
iex(7)> GlobEx.ls(~g|*.exs|d) # files starting with a dot will not be treated specially
[".credo.exs", ".formatter.exs", "mix.exs"]

Benchmarks

The repo contains some benchmarks.

The benchmark ls_bench shows that GlobEx.ls/2 and Path.wildcard/2 are equally fast.

Another benchmark compares GlobEx.match?/2 with GlobPath.match/3.