Globbing in FTP search

When performing glob searches or matches in FTP search, the query term must match the whole file name.

Some characters get special meanings when performing a glob search/match:

*

The asterisk matches zero or more characters.

?

The question mark matches one character.

{

The left brace marks the the start of a 'multiple choices' region.

}

The right brace marks the end of a 'multiple choices' region.

,

The comma seperates alternate elements in a 'multiple choices' region.

\

The backslash is used to quote the next character, causing it to be interpreted literally, and not as a meta-character.

Examples

abc

Matches the filename abc

*abc*

Matches any filename containing abc

abc*

Matches any filename starting with abc

*abc

Matches any filename ending with abc

abc*def.

Matches any filename starting with abc and ending with def.

abc\*def.

Matches the filename abc*def.

abc.def

Matches the filename abc.def

abc?def

Matches any 7 character long filename starting with abc and ending with def.

abc\?def

Matches the filename abc?def

*.txt

Matches any filename ending with .txt

{abc,def,ghi}

Matches abc, def and ghi

*\{def*

Matches any filename containing {def

Restrictions

Globbing is a concept that exists only in the WWW gateway, and not in the search server. The query term is translated to a regular expression before it is sent to the search server. Thus the Try exact hits first option does not work as expected with glob type searches/matches, since the search server tries an exact hit with the translated query term.

Character ranges are not handled.

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