Broken match() behavior with certain masks including escaped wildcard characters
miwob opened this issue · 1 comments
If a mask has leading wildcard characters followed by an escaped wildcard, for example *\*
, one would expect this mask to match against foo*
, which it doesn't. In fact it does match against any string containing a backslash character, which assumedly can't be intended behavior, as the backslash is only used as an escaping character in this case.
The same applies to the ?
wildcard. For a mask of ???\?
, it would be expected to have a match against foo?
, which again isn't the case, but there's a match against foo\?
.
If this is not intended behavior, and is going to be corrected, the backslash character should be allowed to be escaped by itself, to allow masks like *\\*
to be matched against any string containing a \
.