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provides pattern matching abstraction to flexibly choose between regex and glob.

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/* Copyright (c) The m-m-m Team, Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */
package net.sf.mmm.util.pattern.base;

import net.sf.mmm.util.pattern.api.PatternCompiler;

/**
 * This is an implementation of the {@link PatternCompiler} interface that {@link #compile(String) compiles}
 * glob-patterns. A glob-pattern is a pattern, where only the wildcard characters {@code '*'} and {@code '?'}
 * are treated special. The asterisk ({@code '*'}) can match any string including the empty string and the questionmark
 * ({@code '?'}) can match any single character. 

 * Examples:
 * 
 * {@code A*bc?e} matches {@code Abcde} or {@code AFOObarbcxe} but NOT {@code abcde} or {@code Abce}.
 * 
 *
 * @author Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public class GlobPatternCompiler extends AbstractGlobPatternCompiler {

  /** A singleton instance of this implementation. */
  public static final PatternCompiler INSTANCE = new GlobPatternCompiler();

  /**
   * The constructor.
   */
  public GlobPatternCompiler() {

    super();
  }

}