Editing Glob (programming) (section)

== Other implementations==
Beyond their uses in shells, globs patterns also find use in a variety of programming languages, mainly to process human input. A glob-style interface for returning files or an fnmatch-style interface for matching strings are found in the following programming languages:

* [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] do not have built-in support for glob patterns in the ISO-defined standard libraries, however on Unix-like systems C and C++ may include <code><glob.h></code> from the [[C POSIX library]] to use <code>glob()</code>. 
** C++ itself does not have direct support for glob patterns, however they may be approximated using the <code><filesystem></code> and <code><regex></code> headers, using <code>std::filesystem::directory_iterator()</code> and <code>std::regex_match()</code>.
* [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]] has multiple libraries available through [[NuGet]] such as <code>Glob</code><ref name="dotnet-glob"/> or <code>DotNet.Glob</code>.<ref name="dotnet.glob"/>
* [[D (programming language)|D]] has a <code>globMatch</code> function in the <code>std.path</code> module.<ref name="dlang"/>
* [[JavaScript]] has a library called <code>minimatch</code> which is used internally by [[Npm (software)|npm]], and <code>micromatch</code>, a purportedly more optimized, accurate and safer globbing implementation used by [[Babel (compiler)|Babel]] and yarn.<ref name="minimatch"/><ref name="micromatch"/>
* [[Go (programming language)|Go]] has a <code>Glob</code> function in the <code>filepath</code> package.<ref name="golang"/>
* [[Java (programming language)|Java]] has a <code>Files</code> class in the package <code>java.nio.file</code>, containing methods that can operate on glob patterns.<ref name="java"/>
* [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]] has a <code>Glob</code> package with the main module <code>System.FilePath.Glob</code>. The pattern syntax is based on a subset of [[Zsh]]'s. It tries to optimize the given pattern and should be noticeably faster than a naïve character-by-character matcher.<ref name="hs"/>
* [[Perl]] has both a <code>glob</code> function (as discussed in [[Larry Wall]]'s book ''[[Programming Perl]]'') and a ''Glob'' extension which mimics the BSD glob routine.<ref name="pl"/> Perl's angle brackets can be used to glob as well: <code>&lt;*.log&gt;</code>.
* [[PHP]] has a <code>glob</code> function.<ref name="php"/>
* [[Python (programming language)|Python]] has a <code>glob</code> module in the standard library which performs wildcard pattern matching on filenames,<ref name="pyglob"/> and an <code>fnmatch</code> module with functions for matching strings or filtering lists based on these same wildcard patterns.<ref name=py/> [[Guido van Rossum]], author of the Python programming language, wrote and contributed a <code>glob</code> routine to [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] [[Unix]] in 1986.<ref name="isc-glob"/> There were previous implementations of <code>glob</code>, e.g., in the [[ex (text editor)|ex]] and [[File Transfer Protocol|ftp]] programs in previous releases of BSD.
* [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] has a <code>glob</code> method for the <code>Dir</code> class which performs wildcard pattern matching on filenames.<ref name="rbdir"/> Several libraries such as Rant and Rake provide a <code>FileList</code> class which has a glob method or use the method <code>FileList.[]</code> identically.
* [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]] has multiple libraries that can match glob patterns,<ref>{{cite web|title=#glob - Lib.rs|url=https://lib.rs/keywords/glob|access-date=12 November 2021|website=lib.rs|archive-date=2021-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112115505/https://lib.rs/keywords/glob|url-status=live}}</ref> the most popular of these being the <code>glob</code> crate.<ref>{{cite web|title=glob - Lib.rs|url=https://lib.rs/crates/glob|access-date=17 January 2025|website=lib.rs}}</ref>
* [[SQLite]] has a <code>GLOB</code> function.
* [[Tcl]] contains a globbing facility.<ref name="tcl"/>