gobwas/glob

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library for compiling and matching glob patterns like *.github.com, ?, [a-c], and {alt1,alt2}. Patterns are compiled once into a matcher object for fast repeated string matching.

Use cases

• match file paths against glob patterns in Go
• compile a wildcard pattern once and match many strings fast
• implement allow/deny lists with wildcard patterns
• match hostnames like *.github.com
• support brace and character-class pattern syntax in my app

When to choose

• you need fast, repeated matching of glob patterns in Go
• you need richer glob syntax than the standard library path.Match, like braces and super wildcards

When to avoid

• you need full regular expressions rather than glob syntax
• you only match a pattern once and don't care about compile-once performance
• you need filesystem walking built in

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser developer-tools developer-tools files go cross-platform glob pattern-matching string-matching compile-once algorithms

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