NAME

Win32::Wildcard - Unfold the wildcards contained in @ARGV automatically

SYNOPSIS

  # In your script:
  # foo.pl
  use Win32::Wildcard 'unfold';

  unfold;
  
  # @ARGV now contains the whole list of files.
  # other traditional code follows...

  # On Win32 command line, you can invoke it like this:
  > perl foo.pl *.ex? "C:\Program Files\MySQ?\*.txt" abc.dat

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a straight-forward interface for processing the wildcards used in Win32 command line. The standard File::DosGlob module maked my work minimal.

The unfold function globs the pattern appeared in @ARGV and assign the final file list back to @ARGV. Every element of @ARGV is treated as single pattern and white spaces are reserved.

I think the beauty of this stuff is just its simplicity. There is only one sub with no arguments and no return values.

EXPORT

unfold

SEE ALSO

the File::DosGlob manpage

AUTHOR

Agent Zhang, <agent2002@126.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 Agent Zhang.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.