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

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #15, bug #47950 (project octave):

@Lachlan, comment #14:
On MinGW both '\' and '/' are valid in (Windows) file names and most Octave
commands working on/with files and directories treat  '\' and '/' as file
separators in single-quoted path/file names.

Escaping characters preceded by a backslash in Windows file/path names can be
avoided by using sq-strings. But if escaping characters is required,
dq-strings, with double backslashes for backslashes that need to survive
escaping, is the best and maybe the only option AFAIK.
I think this is an unavoidable (IMO little) issue that Windows users have to
be aware of.

Could it help if on Windows, glob() would only convert '\' into '/' for
sq-strings?  Or is sq-to-dq string conversion performed before handing the
input string to glob() (as the code snippet in #comment 8 seems to suggest)?


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