[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62589] dir does not work correctly with '*' in directory name in 7.1.0

[Rik]

Update of bug #62589 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed.  Trying to get exactly compatible behavior with Matlab is annoying.
 For example, their documentation says that the asterisk character is always
treated as a wildcard---even on UNIX-like systems where that could be a
legitimate character in a filename.  Something like


dir ('\*a/')


is never going to work because the escape character doesn't actually escape
anything.

>From what I can decipher of Matlab behavior, when a wildcard is used (and an
asterisk is the only wildcard for Matlab) it returns the directory name and
not the director contents.  However, if a file separator is added after the
wildcard then directory contents are returned.

Example code


mkdir ('*a')
dir ('*a')
*a

mkdir ('*ba')
dir ('*a')
*a    *ba

dir ('*a/')
Files found in: *a
.     ..

Files found in: *ba
.     ..





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