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Allow the use of ^ for negation in addition to !? #116

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ackerleytng opened this issue Jul 12, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #141
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Allow the use of ^ for negation in addition to !? #116

ackerleytng opened this issue Jul 12, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #141

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@ackerleytng
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Would you consider allowing the use of ^ for negation in addition to !?

gnu coreutils supports the use of ^ in addition to !, based on the behavior of ls and du. I tried finding documentation of this in code, and found this in fnmatch.c

Or perhaps, instead of a direct comparison with '!' at https:/github.com/rust-lang/glob/blob/master/src/lib.rs#L614, can we call a method like is_negation_character? That way, this library can be extended.

@ndmitchell
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This would also be useful for a project I've been working on, where the incompatibility with Java glob libraries caught us by surprise. I note that @ackerleytng used the workaround of replacing the input string - that would be possible for us too, but it seems like a dangerous thing to do and easy to get wrong.

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