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UWA week 40 (2nd semester, week 10) ↓

2nd project glob checking (both)

1:02pm Mon 2nd Oct, Christopher M.

"Hugo Smith" <23*2*1*2@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> Hey Chris, > > I'm a bit unsure how crazy we should go when validating the glob-patterns given to us. I've nicked your glob2regex function to process any argument following a -i or -o, but the issue is that glob2regex will eat it up and try to turn it into a regular expression even if it's not a proper glob-pattern. Checking whether the subsequent argument is correctly formatted in single-quotes sounds sensible, but I'm not sure whether we should check for things like unbalanced brackets or a missing backslash within the glob-pattern itself. Can we assume a glob-pattern given in the correct position and format will always be valid? > > Thanks in advance

Hello Hugo, Yes, you may assume that the file-patterns provided for testing will be valid one (checking those is not a focus of the project and, yes, we could write a better glob2regex() function, but...)