README for Text::Glob 0.07

=head1 NAME

Text::Glob - match globbing patterns against text

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use Text::Glob qw( match_glob glob_to_regex );

 print "matched\n" if match_glob( "foo.*", "foo.bar" );

 # prints foo.bar and foo.baz
 my $regex = glob_to_regex( "foo.*" );
 for ( qw( foo.bar foo.baz foo bar ) ) {
     print "matched: $_\n" if /$regex/;
 }



=head1 INSTALLATION

 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

=head1 HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

=over

=item 0.07	Friday 14th July, 2006

	Explictly quote @ and %.  Though they don't really need it to work
	normally, it's needed for when you roundtrip the
	regex back into text (like File::Find::Rule does).


=item 0.06    Monday 1st September, 2003

	- port to Module::Build
        - Nested alternations fix from Mike Benson
	

=item 0.05	15th August, 2002

	- !match_glob("*.foo", "foo/.foo"); 
	- test suite overhaul
	- backslash expansion fixed
	- /[+^$|]/ made less 'special'
	- handle embedded newlines in glob patterns
	- add tests for 'foo[abc]'
	- Many thanks go to Nick Cleaton for finding these

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<File::Glob>, glob(3)

