Timeline for Why should one use globs over regex when doing filename pattern matching?
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| S Oct 4 at 6:46 | history | suggested | Pang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3 at 18:37 | comment | added | JimmyJames |
One really specific issue with regex and file matching is the fact that . in regex matches any character and '.' is not only a very character in filenames but often part of the matching rule. It's very easy to fail to escape the . in a pattern and not notice.
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| Oct 3 at 8:56 | history | edited | Steffen Ullrich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 11 characters in body
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| Oct 3 at 8:39 | history | answered | Steffen Ullrich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |