Defect: Patterns with Unsupported non alph-numeric characters fail to match

[MarkMichaelis]

It appers that a patterns with escape sequences fail:

• DotNet.Globbing.Glob.Parse("\"Stuff*").IsMatch("\"Stuff"): false
• DotNet.Globbing.Glob.Parse("\0Stuff*").IsMatch("\0Stuff"): false
• DotNet.Globbing.Glob.Parse("\nStuff*").IsMatch("\nStuff"): false
• DotNet.Globbing.Glob.Parse("\r\nStuff*").IsMatch("\r\nStuff"): false

[dazinator]

Currently the non-alphanumeric characters that are supported are restricted to this subset: https://github.com/dazinator/DotNet.Glob/blob/develop/src/DotNet.Glob/GlobStringReader.cs#L27

These characters are ones that are legal for file / directory paths.

Are you looking to match text within a text file or something?

[MarkMichaelis]

I was looking to find the equivalent of the Visual Basic or PowerShell like operators so yes. :)

[dazinator]

As per #31 - the issue is that when the pattern is tokenised, if the pattern contains a character that isn't in the allowed / supported subset of characters, then the token is silently omitted from the tokenised pattern. Then when you go on to do a match, you are actually matching now against a pattern that has those unsupported tokens omitted.

I am thinking I can address this in a couple of ways.

1. Throw an exception if encountering an unsupported token in the pattern (this is obvious)
2. Provide an option whereby you can "relax" character constraints on patterns.

The current constraints on the characters you can use are optimised for path / directory matching. Having an option to relax these constraints will allow you to use DotNet.Glob in a fashion more similar to VB's Like.

[dazinator]

I have just pushed 1.6.4 which fixes this problem! Read: https://github.com/dazinator/DotNet.Glob#parsing-options