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On Thu Jan 29 08:24:12 2015, ikegami@adaelis.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:51 AM, James E Keenan via RT <
> perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed Jan 28 10:39:13 2015, porton@narod.ru wrote:
> > > I suggest to add to Perl core a routine similar to glob(), but
> > > using regexps instead of globs.
> >
> > But that functionality already exists, does it not?
> >
> > (untested)
> > #####
> > opendir my $DIR, 'some/directory' or die;
> > my @files = grep { m/some_pattern/ } readdir $DIR;
> > closedir or die;
> > #####
> >
>
> glob is both a filtered file fetcher (glob('*.txt')) and string generator
> (glob('{a,b}')).
>
> You covered the former. If he wants the latter, there's Regexp::Genex.
The consensus appears to be that there is no need for a change in the Perl 5 core functionality with respect to the issues raised in this ticket. Closing ticket.
Thank you very much.
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James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)
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