Posted by C. on 11/21/07 13:01

On 16 Nov, 11:43, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spamyourself.com> wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > Does anyone use glob to search?. I am wondering how good/effective it is
>
> >http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php
>
> Hi,
>
> Glob is much alike the Perl glob.
> You can use it to find files that match a certain regex.

erm...not really - it has its own pattern matching language which is
quite different from regexes.

(Since regexes are so useful in other contexts, I use them in
preference to glob for finding files - that way I've only got one
pattern syntax to worry about).

C.

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