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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <2538@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 1 Mar 90 09:35:43 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)

In article <15209@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes:
 `A quick thought -- globbing is too slow right now.  If your system has
 `CSH, even though you never use it in your life otherwise, Perl will
 `spawn it to do globbing.  If you forcibly turn off #define CSH, Perl
 `then spawns a Bourne shell PIPE!  ('echo %s | tr')  I can see the
 `'echo' as a quick&dirty, but a tool as sophisticated as Perl loading
 `'tr'???  With do_trans() and so forth already coded?  Yeccch.
 `
 `At minimum in the second case, Perl should take the output of 'echo'
 `(which is internal to many Bourne shells) and do its own translate.
 `
 `Ideally, Perl should do its own globbing.  There is enough globbing code
 `out to there to "borrow" from, and Perl already has 'dirent'.
 `

Actually, I rewrote the globbing in perl (I mean, I put the code in perl).
I borrowed the globbing code from GNU make.
I have sent the code to Larry, but I never heard anything about it.
Maybe he is afraid to use it :=)
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