Match any character, including special characters using the Match function - go

Question

I have a relatively weird file names,
but the glob function doesn't seem to pick them up using usual wildcards:
fmt.Println(filepath.Match("/home/catch/*.xml", "/home/catch/{foo/x/y}.xml"))
so, I want to match xml files in the catch folders, and they might have special characters in their name, like {path1/path2}.xml
Sadly, the * wildcard won't match that since I assume slashes and maybe curly braces are considered as non-separator characters?

Answer 1

I'm using Linux and with this pattern Match is returning true . So files like that {path1/path2}.xml (although it is not common), it is possible to match them.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"path/filepath"
)
func main() {
fmt.Println(filepath.Match("/home/catch/*\\/*", "/home/catch/{path1/path2}.xml"))
}
Output
true <nil>
But on Windows, escaping is disabled. Instead, \\ is treated as path separator, so it will not work.
"/home/catch/*\\/*"
You can read it in the documentation
pattern:
{ term }
term:
'*' matches any sequence of non-Separator characters
'?' matches any single non-Separator character
'[' [ '^' ] { character-range } ']'
character class (must be non-empty)
c matches character c (c != '*', '?', '\\', '[')
'\\' c matches character c
character-range:
c matches character c (c != '\\', '-', ']')
'\\' c matches character c
lo '-' hi matches character c for lo <= c <= hi
Match requires pattern to match all of name, not just a substring. The only possible returned error is ErrBadPattern, when pattern is malformed.
On Windows, escaping is disabled. Instead, '\\' is treated as path separator.
https://pkg.go.dev/path/filepath#Match