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

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #47950 (project octave):

That actually sounds easy, but the problem is with a string like


glob ('dir\*a*.txt')


Is the user looking for all files named '*a*.txt' in a directory named 'dir'?
Or is the user looking for a match against files starting with the literal
string 'dir*a' and ending with '.txt'? I don't think there is a way to resolve
this ambiguity on a system where the same character is used for escaping and
for directory separators.

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