Hi, I’m trying to walk through directories, but respecting .gitignore . How can I match glob patterns in .gitignore file like .zig-cache/ tmp-* ? If this feature isn’t in the standard library yet, do I have to learn C in order to use this feature? Thank you very much.

Glob is rather simple compared to regular expressions, so there shouldn’t be a need to pull in a C library. Here’s a quick direct port of the algorithm from this post (my port is mostly untested, you’ll definitely want to check my work) fn match(pattern: []const u8, name: []const u8) bool { var…

How do I match glob patterns in Zig?

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