glob

glob — Find pathnames matching a pattern

Description

array glob ( string $pattern [, int $flags] )

The glob() function searches for all the pathnames matching pattern according to the rules used by the libc glob() function, which is similar to the rules used by common shells.

Parameters

pattern

The pattern. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.

flags

Valid flags:

• GLOB_MARK - Adds a slash to each item returned
• GLOB_NOSORT - Return files as they appear in the directory (no sorting)
• GLOB_NOCHECK - Return the search pattern if no files matching it were found
• GLOB_NOESCAPE - Backslashes do not quote metacharacters
• GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'
• GLOB_ONLYDIR - Return only directory entries which match the pattern
• GLOB_ERR - Stop on read errors (like unreadable directories), by default errors are ignored.

Return Values

Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array if no file matched or FALSE on error.