[perl #121567] File::DosGlob only case-insensitive with metacharacters

On Wed Apr 02 08:38:34 2014, smylers@stripey.com wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from Smylers@stripey.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.19.11.
> 
> 
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> 
> File::DosGlob is documented as “all path components are
> case-insensitive”, but this isn't true for a pattern which doesn't
> contain any metacharacters.
> 
> For instance in a directory on a case-sensitive file system containing
> both Makefile and makefile, only an exact match is returned:
> 
> $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::DosGlob=glob -E 'say foreach glob "makefile"'
> makefile
> 
> Yet putting an irrelevant metacharacter in there makes other parts of
> the match be case-insensitive and find both files:
> 
> $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::DosGlob=glob -E 'say foreach glob "makefil?"'
> Makefile
> makefile
> 
> See also RT #121566, which is the equivalent bug in the File::Glob
> module.
> 
> 

Problem confirmed:

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[perl] 16 $ ./perl -v | head -2 | tail -1
This is perl 5, version 21, subversion 5 (v5.21.5 (v5.21.4-63-g0c7df90)) built for x86_64-linux
[perl] 17 $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::DosGlob=glob -E 'say foreach glob "makefile"'
makefile
[perl] 18 $ ./perl -Ilib -MFile::DosGlob=glob -E 'say foreach glob "makefil?"'
makefile
Makefile
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-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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• [perl #121567] File::DosGlob only case-insensitive with metacharacters by James E Keenan via RT