SYNOPSIS

        use String::Wildcard::Bash qw(contains_wildcard);
    
        say 1 if contains_wildcard(""));      # -> 0
        say 1 if contains_wildcard("ab*"));   # -> 1
        say 1 if contains_wildcard("ab\\*")); # -> 0

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

 contains_wildcard($str) => bool

    Return true if $str contains wildcard pattern. Wildcard patterns
    include * (meaning zero or more characters), ? (exactly one character),
    [...] (character class), {...,} (brace expansion). Can handle
    escaped/backslash (e.g. foo\* does not contain wildcard, it's foo
    followed by a literal asterisk *).

    Aside from wildcard, bash does other types of expansions/substitutions
    too, but these are not considered wildcard. These include tilde
    expansion (e.g. ~ becomes /home/alice), parameter and variable
    expansion (e.g. $0 and $HOME), arithmetic expression (e.g. $[1+2]),
    history (!), and so on.

    Although this module has 'Bash' in its name, this set of wildcards
    should be applicable to other Unix shells. Haven't checked completely
    though.

SEE ALSO

    Regexp::Wildcards to convert a string with wildcard pattern to
    equivalent regexp pattern. Can handle Unix wildcards as well as SQL and
    DOS/Win32. As of this writing (v1.05), it does not handle character
    class ([...]) and interprets brace expansion differently than bash.

    Other String::Wildcard::* modules.