Glob is not working when directory name with special characters like square brackets “[ ]”

Question

I have issue while using glob function when path directory with square brackets.

// Example 1 - working
$path = \'temp\'. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .\'dir - name\'         


        

Answer 1

Thanks for all of you.

I got exact solution for my query. below code is a working for me

$path = 'temp'. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .'dir - [name]';
$path = str_replace('[', '\[', $path);
$path = str_replace(']', '\]', $path);
$path = str_replace('\[', '[[]', $path);
$path = str_replace('\]', '[]]', $path);
$files = glob($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*.txt');
// List files
echo '
';
    print_r($files);
echo '
';