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

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #47950 (project octave):

We could use the fact that '/' is not valid in Windows file names.
A possible rule would be

- In any string that contains a '/', don't translate '\', regardless of OS. 
That way, if a string is using unix-like directory separators, it can use
unix-like escapes even on Windows systems.  The only ambiguity would arise if
the string mixed the two on a Windows system.

This would fail in Mike's example of comment #3, but that could easily be
replaced by  dir ('./\[abc\]').

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