Package com.hrakaroo.glob

This package provides a glob style pattern matcher for strings.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
MatchingEngine	Interface to a matcher which is responsible for matching the compiled glob pattern against the given input string.

Class Summary

Class	Description
GlobPattern	This class is responsible for compiling the given pattern into one of the Matching Engines.

Package com.hrakaroo.glob Description

This package provides a glob style pattern matcher for strings. Globs are often used in Unix command lines and in the SQL like matcher.

     import com.hrakaroo.glob.*;

     // By default this will use '*' as the match-zero-or-more character, and '?' as the match-exactly-one character.
     MatchingEngine m = GlobPattern.compile("*.txt");
     for (String s : new String[]{"file.txt", "file.png"}) {
         if (m.matches(s)) {
             System.out.println("This is a text file: " + s);
         }
     }