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Bug #31674 glob() returns no results for dirs with brackets in them.
Submitted: 2005-01-24 03:31 UTC Modified: 2005-01-24 11:01 UTC
From: miika dot ahonen at mbnet dot fi Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Directory/Filesystem functions
PHP Version: 5.0.3 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-01-24 03:31 UTC] miika dot ahonen at mbnet dot fi
Description:
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In an attempt to glob() directory with bracket ('[' and/or ']') in its name, I get no results at all.

Reproduce code:
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$dir = "./dir[with]brackets";

if (!is_dir($dir))
   mkdir($dir);

for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++)
   file_put_contents($dir."/file.".$i, "foo".$i."\n");

var_dump( glob($dir."/*") );

Expected result:
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Array containing files in the said directory.

Actual result:
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Empty array.

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 [2005-01-24 08:10 UTC] derick@php.net
Brackets make a character class,just as in regular expressions. Escape them with a \.
 [2005-01-24 11:01 UTC] miika dot ahonen at mbnet dot fi
I don't think that explains why first doing chdir() to such directory and doing just glob("*") fails in similar manner. The chdir() works fine in such cases and with readdir() I can get everything I want from there without any problems.
 
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