glob
Find pathnames matching a pattern
Description
arrayfalse glob(string $pattern, int $flags = 0)
Parameters
-
pattern
-
The pattern. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.
Special characters:
-
* - Matches zero or more characters.
-
? - Matches exactly one character (any character).
-
[...] - Matches one character from a group of
characters. If the first character is !,
matches any character not in the group.
-
\ - Escapes the following character,
except when the GLOB_NOESCAPE flag is used.
-
flags
-
Any of the GLOB_* constants.
Return Values
Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array
if no file matched or false on error.
Note:
On some systems it is impossible to distinguish between empty match and an
error.
Examples
Example #1
Convenient way how glob can replace
opendir and friends.
<?php
foreach (glob("*.txt") as $filename) {
echo "$filename size " . filesize($filename) . "\n";
}
?>
The above example will output
something similar to:
funclist.txt size 44686
funcsummary.txt size 267625
quickref.txt size 137820
Notes
Note: This function will not work on
remote files as the file to
be examined must be accessible via the server's filesystem.
Note:
This function isn't available on some systems (e.g. old Sun OS).
See Also
- opendir
- readdir
- closedir
- fnmatch