Proposal: Path.match?/3

[Jon Leighton]

Hi there,

I have published a new library called path_glob: https://github.com/jonleighton/path_glob

It aims to implement glob matching without touching the filesystem. That is, if a path is returned by Path.wildcard(glob, opts), then PathGlob.match?(path, glob, opts) should return true. This is much more performant in cases where we have a single path to check against a glob, and the glob would result in a lot of filesystem traversal.

I wonder whether this would be a candidate for inclusion into core Elixir? It seems that it might be generally useful and it complements the functionality already provided by Path.wildcard/2.

The parser is implemented with nimble_parsec. I presume that if it were included into Elixir core then we wouldn't want that dependency, but we could check in the generated parser source to avoid it.

Cheers,

Jon

[José Valim]

This would be a welcome addition. However, notice that our wildcard implementation simply relies on Erlang's filelib:wildcard/2. So the first path would be to add filelib:match/2 to Erlang. Feel free to ping me on IRC if you need help or guidance to get this started on the Erlang side.

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