Hello Andrew,
About windows-specific issues, from File::Glob man page:
""" On DOSISH systems, backslash is a valid directory separator
character. In this case, use of backslash as a quoting character (via
GLOB_QUOTE) interferes with the use of backslash as a directory
separator. ... """
It seems to suggest that quotemeta backslash-on-nearly-everything
approach is not appropriate.
File globbing is not the same thing as regex matching. For example, '.'
is a literal character in a glob pattern but a metacharacter in a regex,
while ' ' is a literal character in a regex but a globbing metacharacter
(but see below), and '*' is a metacharacter in both but has different
meanings. quotemeta is intended for regexes but being used here on an
expression used for globbing.
Perhaps it would be OK we changed back the glob line to use $prefix
instead of $qprefix, but kept the use of $qprefix in the later regex.
Yep, possibly. I'll have to test, though.
To deal with the issue of spaces in file names (not an issue eher ob
bowerbird), we should consider adding this:
use File::Glob ':bsd_glob';
I was planning that so that the behavior is the same on all systems.
This removes the globbing metcharacter nature of the space character,
although it might have other effects that cause pain. See `perldoc
File::Glob`
Yep. Thanks for doing my homework:-) I'll test starting with these
options.
--
Fabien.
