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glob programming - programming specifies sets of filenames with wildcard character

 glob programming -  programming specifies  sets of filenames with wildcard character introduction: Do you remember about wildcard character wildcard character? wildcard character is a kind of placeholder represented with single character. You can learn it more with  Post editor: Preview (blogger.com) description: Globbing is referred to as "glob matching" or "filepath expansion". Globbing  is  a programming concept that involves the use of wildcards and special characters for matching and filtering. Resource: more details on glob (programming) - Wikipedia GitHub - begin/globbing: Introduction to "globbing" or glob matching, a programming concept that allows "filepath expansion" and matching using wildcards.

wildcard character - a kind of placeholder represented by a single character

wildcard character -  a kind of placeholder represented by a single character introduction: Do you remember about scanf() in C language? scanf() is used for reading input from console and store it into variable. Wildcard character can be used to scanf() , reading file with specific filename. description: Wildcard character( 萬用字元) is a kind of placeholder represented by a single character. All specific filename can be represented with some single character. You don't have to search all the possibilities. For Example, I wanna search the file which filename is one of  them{"aaa","aab","aac","aad",...,"aaz"}. I have to search 1 time instead of 26 times if I search the file with wildcard character. Application: If you wanna search lots of file or data, you can use it. (1)File pattern (2)Database (3)Regular expression Resource: more details on: Wildcard character - Wikipedia