[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47950] glob and dir functions are unable to escape square bracket characters in Windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #22, bug #47950 (project octave):

It's doubtful that Windows users are even aware that dir.m invokes glob().

But I'd expect glob(), when invoked explicitly from the command line or in
user scripts, to work identically on all platforms.
If glob() can be made to work properly on Windows using [..] patterns, there's
no reason to cripple dir.m for that platform other than the extra work to get
glob() going.


Anyway, my C++ skills are a bit lacking so hopefully someone will pick this
up.

Just curious, would it be s/th like:

:
              std::replace_if (xpat.begin (), xpat.end (),
                               std::bind2nd (std::equal_to<char> (), '['),
                               '\[');
:


and similarly for ']' ?


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