/**
* Function to do wildcard expansion (also known as ‘globbing’) on file paths.
*
* <p>Globbing is implemented by {@link FileScanner}
*
* @param paths character vector of patterns for relative or absolute filepaths. Missing values
* will be ignored.
* @param markDirectories should matches to directories from patterns that do not already end in /
* or \ have a slash appended? May not be supported on all platforms.
* @return
*/
@Internal("Sys.glob")
public static StringVector glob(
@Current Context context, StringVector paths, boolean markDirectories) {
List<String> matching = Lists.newArrayList();
for (String path : paths) {
if (path != null) {
if (path.indexOf('*') == -1) {
matching.add(path);
} else {
matching.addAll(FileScanner.scan(context, path, markDirectories));
}
}
}
return new StringArrayVector(matching);
}
