[chef] Allow 'recipe[cookbook]' to accept exact (current) and general regexp matches

[Hedge Hog < >]

Hi,
At the moment Chef seems (afaict, but I haven't yet digested all the
spec's and code) to accept only an exact match in the following:

"recipe[apache2]" in ~/chef-repo/roles/*
This then is used to load the ~/chef-repo/cookbook/apache2

Any chance of accepting RegExp, ala string?
So this

"recipe[/(.*)(apache2)(.*)/,2]"

loads the cookbook
 ./chef-repo/cookbooks/rand_prefix-apt-rand_postfix

Since folder names are being used to infer cookbook names, then in
case of a multiple match, the most recently changed folder is
selected.
The value returned by the regexp, apache2 in this case is the
'internal-name' name used
So this would _not_ need to be changed _inside_ the cookbook:

include_recipe "apache2::mod_status"

Thoughts and comments on opening a feature request for this.

I acknowledge the downside that using the String regexp syntax makes
recipe look like it is a string rather than a hash/array - a small
price for the additional flexibility to brings?

Best wishes.

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