[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47950] glob and dir functions fail with escaped wildcard characters in Windows

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #47950 (project octave):

Just a guess, looking in liboctave/util/oct-glob.cc I see the following:


#if (defined (OCTAVE_HAVE_WINDOWS_FILESYSTEM) \
     && ! defined (OCTAVE_HAVE_POSIX_FILESYSTEM))
              std::replace_if (xpat.begin (), xpat.end (),
                               std::bind2nd (std::equal_to<char> (), '\\'),
                               '/');
#endif

              int err = gnulib::glob (xpat.c_str (), GLOB_NOSORT, 0,
&glob_info);


It appears that on Windows systems we change all path names that use the '\'
character as a file separator in to '/' before we call glob so that the
backslash is not treated as an escape character.

In this case, we want '\[' to escape the special meaning of the bracket but it
is being turned in to '/['. 


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