[DGD] get_dir() oddity

[bart at wotf.org]

Duh, sorry for replying to my own message but..

Seems the pattern part of get_dir() can be a regular expression and reserves [
Guess I missed that somewhere.

Bart.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:05:29 +0100, bart wrote
> Somewhere on my filesystem there is a file /cmd/comm/[@.c
> Trying to do a compile_file() on it works fine, but a get_dir() somehow
> doesn't work as expected.
> 
> ie get_dir("/cmd/comm/*") shows the file but 
> get_dir("/cmd/comm/[@.c") returns an empty array. On any other file 
> it returns the filename, size and time as array as expected.
> 
> Something like get_dir("/cmd/comm/?@.c") also shows the file.
> 
> That is the driver implementation of get_dir() btw.
> 
> Any ideas why this is? Its specific to the [ in the name it seems.
> 
> Bart.
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