ex_minimatch

ExMinimatch is an Elixir library that provides fast glob pattern matching for file paths without requiring filesystem traversal. It's ideal for filtering or validating file paths in memory, such as when processing lists of files from a database or API.

Key Features

• Brace Expansion — Supports {a,b} and {1..3} style pattern expansions.
• Extended Glob Matching — Handles complex patterns like +(a|b) for advanced matching logic.
• Globstar Support — Enables ** to match across multiple directory levels.
• Compiled Patterns — Allows caching of compiled matcher structs for repeated use against large file lists.
• Configurable Options — Provides options like case-insensitive matching, dotfile handling, and negation control.

Philosophy

ExMinimatch is a close port of the JavaScript minimatch library, focusing on consistency and performance by implementing the matching logic directly rather than relying on full regular expression generation.