local wildcard_pattern = require 'wildcard_pattern'
-- Create simple lua string patterns from wildcard ones
local patt = wildcard_pattern.from_wildcard("*.lua")
assert(string.match("hello_world.lua", patt))
-- Or import a gitignore-like content from file
local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.open(".gitignore"))
-- local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.open(".gitignore"):read('*a'))  -- or from text
-- local ignore_patterns = wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from(io.lines(".gitignore"))  -- or from an iterator function
assert(not wildcard_pattern.any_match(ignore_patterns, "hello_world.lua"))  -- assuming your .gitignore have no rules for ignoring hello_world.lua
-- `any_match` is also a method and __call metamethod for ignore files
assert(not ignore_patterns:any_match("hello_world.lua"))
assert(not ignore_patterns("hello_world.lua"))
-- You can extend your aggregate wildcard with `insert`, `extend` or `extend_from` methods
ignore_patterns:insert("hello_world.lua")
ignore_patterns:extend("hello_world.lua", "hello_world[0-9].lua")
ignore_patterns:extend_from([[
# `extend_from` uses gitignore-like file content, just like `wildcard_pattern.aggregate.from`
world_hello?.lua
**.ignore
]])