sryze / glob

Cross-platform glob library for C++

Glob

Glob is a simple cross-platform wrapper around system APIs for finding files based on patterns.

Below is an example program:

#include <iostream>
#include "glob.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    if (argc < 2) {
        std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " pattern1 [pattern2 [...]]"
                  << std::endl;
        return 1;
    }
    for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
        glob::glob glob(argv[i]);
        while (glob) {
            std::cout << glob.current_match() << std::endl;
            glob.next();
        }
    }
}

TODO

• Custom glob parser with identical behavior across platforms

glob's Issues

doesn't compile on Windows with UNICODE enabled

If you have UNICODE #defined, then glob.cpp doesn't compile.

You are calling FindFirstFileA (ASCII-only) with a struct of type WIN32_FIND_DATA, which is Unicode or ASCII depending on whether UNICODE is #defined or not.

If you make find_data_ of type WIN32_FIND_DATAA instead it compiles.

eats paths

I would expect glob("/path/*") to return all the elements with the "/path/" prefix included, but they aren't. This is different to how glob.glob() behaves in Python for example.