[DGD] get_dir() oddity

[Shentino]

Funny, I always thought that filesystem wildcards were of the *glob* variety...

*scratches head*

On Dec 17, 2007 6:26 PM,  <bart at wotf.org> wrote:
> 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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