** Directory wildcard not matching correctly

[dazinator]

At the moment /**/some.* doesn't match /some.txt due to the fact that the / is matching, and then the directory wildcard ** is matching from position 1 with subtokens that match /some.* against text from position 1 which is some.txt. /some.* doesn't match some.txt.

This all boils down to the fact that ** token needs to also know if it has a trailing / so that I can omit a / token for the trailing slash in its place. That way rather than the glob /**/ being tokenised into

• / token
• ** token
• / token

it can be tokenised into just:

• / token
• ** token (with information to say the token has a trailing / character.

This will result in the trailing slash in / being omitted as token, so then //some.* will match /some.txt.

/**/some.* will not however match some.txt as the first / still expects to match as it is a path separator token. I think this is ok, as to match "some.txt" in any directory you could use **/some.txt and then this wont require a leading slash.
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