Can't match string with leading dot about micromatch HOT 4 CLOSED

Try passing a custom format function on the options, as follows:

const micromatch = require('micromatch');

const format = input => input.replace(/^\.\//, '');

console.log(micromatch.isMatch('./my/relative/file.js', 'my/*/file.js', { format })); //=> true
console.log(micromatch.isMatch('./my/relative/file.js', './my/*/file.js', { format })); //=> true
console.log(micromatch.isMatch('./my/relative/file.js', '**/my/*/file.js', { format })); //=> true

The issue of leading dot slashes has been discussed a few times on this and related repositories. Since ./ is contrived and is only really used in require() and import statements, it's not a pattern that is typically found in real file system paths. The most reliable way to handle such patterns is to use path.normalize() or otherwise ensure that your file paths are normalized before using any matcher. Or you can use micromatch's format option. We decided on this approach because it seemed to be the lesser of all other evils.

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Please let me know if this helps.

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Thanks for the reply. Feel free to close this if this indeed works as intended. Though it would be helpful to mention this in the README so other people won't have to run into debugging this issue.

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const match = micromatch(['/a/file/path/.hiddenFile.ejs.txt', '*.ejs.*', {matchBase: true}]

This is awful DX

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This is awful DX

Yeah, I wouldn't do what you did either.

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