path matching problem

[jerro]

>> You could replace the inner loop with somehting like:
>>
>> bool excl = exclude.any!(part => name.canFind(part));

> std.algorithm seems to generally be running the match in the 
> opposite direction, if I'm understanding it properly.  (Dealing 
> with D template is always confusing to me.)  OTOH, I couldn't 
> find the string any method, so I'm not really sure what you're 
> proposing, though it does look attractive.

I don't understand what you mean with running the match in the 
opposite direction, but I'll explain how my line of code works. 
First of all, it is equivalent to:

any!(part => canFind(name, part))(exclude);

The feature that that lets you write that in the way I did in my 
previous post is called uniform function call syntax (often 
abbreviated to UFCS) and is described at 
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/uniform-function-call-syntax/232700394.

canFind(name, part) returns true if name contains part.

(part => canFind(name, part)) is a short syntax for (part){ 
return canFind(name, part); }

any!(condition)(range) returns true if condition is true for any 
element of range

So the line of code in my previous post sets excl to true if name 
contains any of the strings in exclude. If you know all the 
strings you want to exclude in advance, it is easier to do that 
with a regex like Joshua did.

If you want to learn about D templates, try this tutorial:

https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial/blob/master/dtemplates.pdf?raw=true

> Still, though your basic approach sounds good, the suggestion 
> of Joshua Niehus would let me filter out the strings that 
> didn't fit before entering the loop.  There's probably no real 
> advantage to doing it that way, but it does seem more elegant.

I agree, it is more elegant.