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1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Appendix D. Glob Patterns</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="jEdit 4.2 User's Guide"><link rel="up" href="using-jedit-part.html" title="Part I. Using jEdit"><link rel="previous" href="history.html" title="Appendix C. History Text Fields"><link rel="next" href="regexps.html" title="Appendix E. Regular Expressions"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Appendix D. Glob Patterns</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="history.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part I. Using jEdit</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="regexps.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="appendix" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="globs"></a>Appendix D. Glob Patterns</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> 2 jEdit uses glob patterns similar to those in the various 3 Unix shells to implement file name filters in the file system browser. 4 Glob patterns resemble regular expressions somewhat, 5 but have a much simpler 6 syntax. The following character sequences have special meaning within a glob 7 pattern: 8 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><tt class="literal">?</tt> matches any one character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">*</tt> matches any number of characters</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">{!<i class="replaceable"><tt>glob</tt></i>}</tt> 9 Matches anything that does <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> match 10 <i class="replaceable"><tt>glob</tt></i></p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">{<i class="replaceable"><tt>a</tt></i>,<i class="replaceable"><tt>b</tt></i>,<i class="replaceable"><tt>c</tt></i>}</tt> 11 matches any one of <i class="replaceable"><tt>a</tt></i>, <i class="replaceable"><tt>b</tt></i> or 12 <i class="replaceable"><tt>c</tt></i></p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[<i class="replaceable"><tt>abc</tt></i>]</tt> matches 13 any character in 14 the set <i class="replaceable"><tt>a</tt></i>, <i class="replaceable"><tt>b</tt></i> or 15 <i class="replaceable"><tt>c</tt></i></p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[^<i class="replaceable"><tt>abc</tt></i>]</tt> matches 16 any character not 17 in the set <i class="replaceable"><tt>a</tt></i>, <i class="replaceable"><tt>b</tt></i> or 18 <i class="replaceable"><tt>c</tt></i></p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[<i class="replaceable"><tt>a-z</tt></i>]</tt> matches 19 any character in the 20 range <i class="replaceable"><tt>a</tt></i> to <i class="replaceable"><tt>z</tt></i>, inclusive. 21 A leading or trailing dash will be interpreted literally</p></li></ul></div><p> 22 In addition to the above, a number of “<span class="quote">character class 23 expressions</span>” may be used as well: 24 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:alnum:]]</tt> matches any alphanumeric 25 character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:alpha:]]</tt> matches any alphabetical character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:blank:]]</tt> matches a space or horizontal tab</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:cntrl:]]</tt> matches a control character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:digit:]]</tt> matches a decimal digit</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:graph:]]</tt> matches a non-space, non-control character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:lower:]]</tt> matches a lowercase letter</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:print:]]</tt> same as <tt class="literal">[[:graph:]]</tt>, but also space and tab</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:punct:]]</tt> matches a punctuation character</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:space:]]</tt> matches any whitespace character, including newlines</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:upper:]]</tt> matches an uppercase letter</p></li><li><p><tt class="literal">[[:xdigit:]]</tt> matches a valid hexadecimal digit</p></li></ul></div><p> 26 Here are some examples of glob patterns: 27 </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p><b class="userinput"><tt>*</tt></b> - all files.</p></li><li><p><b class="userinput"><tt>*.java</tt></b> - all files whose names end with 28 “<span class="quote">.java</span>”.</p></li><li><p><b class="userinput"><tt>*.[ch]</tt></b> - all files whose names end 29 with either 30 “<span class="quote">.c</span>” or “<span class="quote">.h</span>”.</p></li><li><p><b class="userinput"><tt>[^#]*</tt></b> - all files whose names do not 31 start with “<span class="quote">#</span>”.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="history.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="using-jedit-part.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="regexps.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Appendix C. 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